{"id":579979,"date":"2019-02-15T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7b35aacca4226afe59a35364c3d9c14d"},"modified":"2019-02-15T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T15:00:14","slug":"farewell-opportunity-rover-dies-but-its-hugely-successful-mars-mission-is-helping-us-design-the-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=579979","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Opportunity: Rover dies, but its hugely successful Mars mission is helping us design the next one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Opportunity rover on Mars has been officially pronounced dead. Its amazingly successful mission lasted nearly 15 years, well beyond its initial three-month goal. Opportunity provided the first proof that water once existed on Mars and shaped its surface, a crucial piece of knowledge informing both current and future missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Opportunity rover on Mars has been officially pronounced dead. Its amazingly successful mission lasted nearly 15 years, well beyond its initial three-month goal. Opportunity provided the first proof that water once existed on Mars and shaped its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579979","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579980,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579979\/revisions\/579980"}],"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=579979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}