{"id":294,"date":"2019-02-13T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2019-03-13T23:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T23:14:01","slug":"nasa-officially-ends-opportunity-rovers-15-year-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/nasa-officially-ends-opportunity-rovers-15-year-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA officially ends Opportunity rover\u2019s 15-year mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/nasa-opportunity-rover.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/opportunity-rover-announcement-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For nearly 15 years, Mars was what you might call the land of Opportunity, as the little Mars rover punched way above its weight and managed to roam the red planet well, well beyond its expected lifespan.<\/a><br><br> \u201cI stand here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that the Opportunity mission is complete\u2014and with it, the Mars Exploration Rover [MER] mission is complete,\u201d NASA associate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen said in Wednesday\u2019s press conference. \u201cWhen this little rover landed, the objective was to have it go 1,100 yards and survive for 90 days on Mars,\u201d said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. \u201cInstead here we are 15 years later after 28 miles of travel, and today we get to celebrate the end of this mission.\u201d<br><br>(unquote)<br><br>Image courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/opportunity-rover-announcement-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) For nearly 15 years, Mars was what you might call the land of Opportunity, as the little Mars rover punched way above its weight and managed to roam the red planet well, well beyond its expected lifespan. \u201cI stand here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/nasa-officially-ends-opportunity-rovers-15-year-mission\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,12],"tags":[36,26,27,31,33,34,32],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-scientific-mind","post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-events","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}