{"id":24097,"date":"2021-03-06T05:50:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24097"},"modified":"2021-03-06T05:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T05:50:19","slug":"perseverance-takes-a-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24097","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance Takes a Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2103\/PIA24487_1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>After arriving at Jezero Crater on Mars, Perseverance went for a spin on March 4. This sharp image from the car-sized rover&#8217;s Navcam shows tracks left by its wheels in the martian soil. In preparation for operations on the surface of the Red Planet, its first drive lasted about 33 minutes. On a short and successful test drive Perseverance moved forward 4 meters, made a 150 degree turn, backed up for 2.5 meters, and now occupies a different parking space at its newly christened Octavia E. Butler Landing location. Though the total travel distance of the rover&#8217;s first outing was about 6.5 meters (21 feet), regular commutes of 200 meters or more can be expected in the future. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap210306.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After arriving at Jezero Crater on Mars, Perseverance went for a spin on March 4. This sharp image from the car-sized rover&#8217;s Navcam shows tracks left by its wheels in <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24097\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24098,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097\/revisions\/24098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}