Opportunity Hi Centered
The little robot that could isStuck in the SandNASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has run into a sandy snag. All of its six wheels have sunk in deep into a large ripple of soil.
Rover operators are optimistic they can extricate the robot from its jam, having gotten dug in before. But ground controllers will need time to wheel back on top of the soil again.
Time will also be spent figuring out what’s different about the soil that has bogged down Opportunity, hoping to keep this problem from occurring down the road.
The Mars machinery had been cruising southward across the open parking lot-like landscape of Meridiani Planum, full of larger and larger ripples of soil. Opportunity has been en route to its next stopover, Erebus crater, nestled inside an even larger crater known as Terra Nova.
The NASA engineers are sounding optimistic about getting Opportunity's 6 wheels unstuck. and we sure are cheering for it. I know its just a machine, but Opportunity has shown us spirit and a sticktoitness that has made fans of us terrestrials.
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