{"id":151981,"date":"2022-12-06T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/its-getting-dark-good-night-oppy-recounts-the-sudden-death-of-a-mars-rover"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:22:34","slug":"its-getting-dark-good-night-oppy-recounts-the-sudden-death-of-a-mars-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/its-getting-dark-good-night-oppy-recounts-the-sudden-death-of-a-mars-rover","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s getting dark\u2019: \u2018Good Night Oppy\u2019 recounts the sudden death of a Mars rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-getting-dark-good-night-oppy-recounts-the-sudden-death-of-a-mars-rover2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the opening scenes of the new film \u201cGood Night Oppy,\u201d the Opportunity rover rolls along through Perseverance Valley on Mars in June 2018, as \u201cRoam\u201d by The B-52s fills the room at mission control.<\/p>\n<p>The peppy tune was the rover\u2019s wake-up song, played at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. In the same way NASA has used a song to wake up astronauts each day they spend in space since the 1960s, the Opportunity rover team began their daily shifts with a song that set the mood for \u201cOppy\u2019s\u201d journey.<\/p>\n<p>But a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/13\/us\/mars-opportunity-rover-massive-storm\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">storm brewing on the horizon<\/a> changed everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening scenes of the new film \u201cGood Night Oppy,\u201d the Opportunity rover rolls along through Perseverance Valley on Mars in June 2018, as \u201cRoam\u201d by The B-52s fills the room at mission control. The peppy tune was the rover\u2019s wake-up song, played at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. In the same [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}