{"id":219587,"date":"2014-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/mer\/shadow-portrait-pia17956"},"modified":"2014-03-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T16:00:00","slug":"shadow-portrait-of-nasa-rover-opportunity-on-martian-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219587","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Portrait of NASA Rover Opportunity on Martian Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image taken by the rover&#8217;s rear hazard avoidance camera. This camera is mounted low on the rover and has a wide-angle lens.<br \/>\nThe image was taken looking eastward shortly before sunset on the 3,609th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity&#8217;s work on Mars (March 20, 2014). The rover&#8217;s shadow falls across a slope called the McClure-Beverlin Escarpment on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, where Opportunity is investigating rock layers for evidence about ancient environments.\u00a0 The scene includes a glimpse into the distance across the 14-mile-wide (22-kilometer-wide) crater.<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image taken by the rover&#8217;s rear hazard avoidance camera. This camera is mounted low on the rover and has a wide-angle lens.<br \/>\nThe image was taken looking eastward shortly before sunset on the 3,609th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity&#8217;s work on Mars (March 20, 2014). The rover&#8217;s shadow falls across a slope called the McClure-Beverlin Escarpment on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, where Opportunity is investigating rock layers for evidence about ancient environments.\u00a0 The scene includes a glimpse into the distance across the 14-mile-wide (22-kilometer-wide) crater.<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}