{"id":5623,"date":"2025-07-27T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/robotic-space-rovers-keep-getting-stuck-engineers-have-figured-out-why\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T04:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T04:02:24","slug":"robotic-space-rovers-keep-getting-stuck-engineers-have-figured-out-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/robotic-space-rovers-keep-getting-stuck-engineers-have-figured-out-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck. Engineers have figured out why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck. Engineers have figured out why<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel\u2014as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009\u2014Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of commands that move its wheels or reverse its course in a delicate, time-consuming effort to free it and continue its exploratory mission.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-07-robotic-space-rovers-stuck-figured.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck. Engineers have figured out why When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel\u2014as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009\u2014Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of commands that move its wheels or reverse its course in a delicate, time-consuming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-5623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}