{"id":176089,"date":"2023-11-15T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasas-mars-robots-are-on-their-own-right-now-heres-why"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T21:22:43","slug":"nasas-mars-robots-are-on-their-own-right-now-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasas-mars-robots-are-on-their-own-right-now-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mars robots are on their own right now \u2014 here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-mars-robots-are-on-their-own-right-now-heres-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has temporarily stopped sending commands to its Mars-exploring robots, but there\u2019s nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re currently experiencing a \u201c<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html\">Mars<\/a> solar conjunction,\u201d a two-week stretch in which <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html\">Earth<\/a> and the Red Planet are situated on opposite sides of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\">the sun<\/a>. Mars mission teams halt commands during such alignments, which occur roughly every two years, for safety reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has temporarily stopped sending commands to its Mars-exploring robots, but there\u2019s nothing to worry about. We\u2019re currently experiencing a \u201cMars solar conjunction,\u201d a two-week stretch in which Earth and the Red Planet are situated on opposite sides of the sun. Mars mission teams halt commands during such alignments, which occur roughly every two years, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176089","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}