{"id":486075,"date":"2018-06-13T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9a2501c21b9a5bb2e1d53d06704bbe2a"},"modified":"2018-06-13T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T18:26:55","slug":"enormous-dust-storm-on-mars-threatens-the-opportunity-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=486075","title":{"rendered":"Enormous Dust Storm On Mars Threatens The Opportunity Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/06\/13\/duststorm_wide-cab3a151020631880d653f8b6f14ddef5471207e.png?s=600' alt='These two views from NASA's Curiosity rover, acquired specifically to measure the amount of dust inside Gale Crater, show that dust has increased over three days from a major Martian dust storm. The left-hand image shows a view of the east-northeast rim of Gale Crater on June 7, 2018 (Sol 2074); the right-hand image shows a view of the same feature on June 10, 2018 (Sol 2077).'\/><\/p>\n<p>With the sun entirely blocked out by dust, the solar-powered rover has presumably fallen asleep to wait out the storm. NASA scientists say they are &#8220;very concerned,&#8221; but that they hope for the best. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=619573721' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the sun entirely blocked out by dust, the solar-powered rover has presumably fallen asleep to wait out the storm. NASA scientists say they are &#8220;very concerned,&#8221; but that they hope for the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486075","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486076,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486075\/revisions\/486076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}