{"id":1787099,"date":"2019-02-15T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787099"},"modified":"2019-02-15T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T17:01:29","slug":"opportunitys-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/opportunitys-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity’s Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t miss the New York Times<\/em>\u2019s scrollable map of the path of the Opportunity rover<\/a> on Mars. (From a technical standpoint it functions much like their map of the U.S.-Mexico border<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t miss the New York Times\u2019s scrollable map of the path of the Opportunity rover on Mars. (From a technical standpoint it functions much like their map of the U.S.-Mexico border.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[295,140],"class_list":["post-1787099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-mars","tag-new-york-times","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1790223,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/02\/a-mars-map-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787099,"position":0},"title":"A Mars Map Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 February 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"National Geographic looks at the rivalry between two early cartographers of Mars who based their maps on observations made during Mars\u2019s \u201cGreat Opposition\u201d in 1877: Nathaniel Green, whose Mars \u201cwas a delicately shaded world with landforms that gradually rose from vast plains and features that blended into one another\u201d (pictured\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Astronomy"","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/astronomy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Nathaniel Green's map of Mars","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nathaniel-green-mars-300x236.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1787433,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/06\/eleanor-lutzs-atlas-of-space\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787099,"position":1},"title":"Eleanor Lutz’s Atlas of Space","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 June 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Last week Eleanor Lutz, who gave us an old-style map of Mars in 2016 and a Goddesses of Venus map in 2017, announced her latest project: \"Over the past year and a half I\u2019ve been working on a collection of ten maps on planets, moons, and outer space. 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On the information pane he says, cryptically, \"There's a hidden element on the map that explains why I really made it. 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