{"id":1538,"date":"2004-11-05T05:51:05","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T10:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/mars-defense-forces-jumpstart-opportunity\/"},"modified":"2004-11-05T05:51:05","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T10:51:05","slug":"mars-defense-forces-jumpstart-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/mars-defense-forces-jumpstart-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"mars defense forces jumpstart opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>according to the october 21 <a href=\"http:\/\/marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov\/newsroom\/pressreleases\/20041021a.html\">mission status<\/a>,  the opportunity rover is getting more juice than expected &#8211; much more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since early September, the amount of electricity from Opportunity&#8217;s solar panels has increased markedly and unexpectedly, to more than 700 watt-hours per day, a level not seen since the first 10 weeks of the mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been surprised but pleased to see this increase,&#8221; said Erickson, &#8220;The team is evaluating ways to determine which of a few different theories is the best explanation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Possible explanations under consideration include the action of wind removing some dust from the solar panels or the action of frost causing dust to clump. &#8220;We seem to have had several substantial cleanings of the solar panels,&#8221; Erickson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimshippey.com\/clarkhoskin\/pics\/squeegee.html\" class=\"broken_link\">clark hoskin figured this one out in 1997<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>according to the october 21 mission status, the opportunity rover is getting more juice than expected &#8211; much more. Since early September, the amount of electricity from Opportunity&#8217;s solar panels has increased markedly and unexpectedly, to more than 700 watt-hours per day, a level not seen since the first 10 weeks of the mission. &#8220;We&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}