{"id":2297,"date":"2004-03-04T17:55:22","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/05\/the-latest-from-mars\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:41:17","slug":"the-latest-from-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/04\/the-latest-from-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest from Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11604,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/spiritrover&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080517102930\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/spiritrover\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:47:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:47:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11605,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\\\/mer2004\\\/rover-images\\\/feb-09-2004\\\/adirondack_pancam-med.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\\\/mer2004\\\/rover-images\\\/feb-09-2004\\\/adirondack_pancam-med.jpg&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11606,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\\\/mer2004\\\/rover-images\\\/feb-09-2004\\\/rover_tracks_navcam_med.jpg&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\\\/mer2004\\\/rover-images\\\/feb-09-2004\\\/rover_tracks_navcam_med.jpg&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11607,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/opportunitygrrl&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11608,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2004_03_01_archive.html#107841967593535445&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Two LiveJournals have popped up to keep us informed of what&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> going on on Mars, without being filtered through the publicists at NASA.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/spiritrover\/\" title=\"spirit rover\">Spirit Rover<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Monday, February 9th, 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  9:56 pm<\/p>\n<p>  i&#8217;ve been staring at the same rock for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>  stupid, boring rock.<\/p>\n<p>  this weekend i got my revenge. first i got to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/mer2004\/rover-images\/feb-09-2004\/adirondack_pancam-med.jpg\" title=\"adriondack_pancam-med.jpg\">grind into it<\/a>, then i <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/mer2004\/rover-images\/feb-09-2004\/rover_tracks_navcam_med.jpg\" title=\"rover_tracks_navcam_med.jpg\">drove right over it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  okay, i admit it, i had fun. i&#8217;d like to do more of this autonomous navigation thing. i knew i didn&#8217;t really need nasa telling me what to do.<\/p>\n<p>  And sister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/opportunitygrrl\/\" title=\"~*~opportunity~*~\">Opportunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>  **Friday, February 6th, 2004 **<\/p>\n<p>  8:23 am<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>squee!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  I got to drive today! It&#8217;s so cool! I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever be allowed to go out on my own. NASA is so protective sometimes; it&#8217;s like they wanted to keep me swaddled in airbags forever. But anyways, I keep finding these round pebbly things. They get stuck in my treads. Do you think they&#8217;ll leave a mark? OMG what if Stardust saw me like this? No, it&#8217;s cool. It&#8217;s not like he&#8217;d ever come by this planet again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  Spirit is still &#8220;sick.&#8221; She swears she&#8217;s gonna drive to that crater any time now, though. She just wants to do it on her time and not when NASA orders her to. Like, whatever.  Don&#8217;t tell anyone but sometimes I miss her.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I think this stuff is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2004_03_01_archive.html#107841967593535445\" title=\"Anthropomorphic Mars Rover LiveJournal \">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two LiveJournals have popped up to keep us informed of what&#8217;s really going on on Mars, without being filtered through the publicists at NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6,514],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}