{"id":19255,"date":"2012-08-25T17:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:30:37","slug":"mars-rock-stars-by-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/mars-rock-stars-by-hp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Rock Stars by HP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-105130 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Mars Rock Stars by HP\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/UFO-3.jpg?resize=75%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mars Rock Stars by HP\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/UFO-3.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/UFO-3.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/UFO-3.jpg?w=288&amp;ssl=1 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/>Now that big sister <a title=\"Mars Curiosity\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsCuriosity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Curiosity<\/strong><\/a> has stolen all the thunder from the<a title=\"NASA&#039;s Spirit Rover Completes Mission on Mars\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230207121910\/https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/mer\/news\/mer20110525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> original <strong>NASA Mars Rovers<\/strong><\/a> <a title=\"A Tale of Two Rovers\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140221002333\/http:\/\/www.nasa.gov:80\/externalflash\/Rovers_5_years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Spirit<\/strong> and <strong>Opportunity<\/strong><\/a>. It is time to recall when they were the <strong>rock stars<\/strong> on Mars. They were so cool in the day that even stodgy <a title=\"HP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HP<\/a> (<a title=\"NYSE : HPQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyse.com\/quote\/XNYS:HPQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HPQ<\/a>) had a commercial with the <a title=\"artist&#039;s concept portrays a NASA Mars Exploration Rover on the surface of Mars Artist concept of Mars Exploration Rover. \" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210323200225\/https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/mer\/multimedia\/gallery\/pia04413.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first Mars Rovers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PFAbTLWiK20\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity is the star on Mars now but the original NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity were such rock stars on Mars that they had an HP commercial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2197,2695,47,168,904,1352,1356,242,1354,1778,1355],"class_list":["post-19255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-2197","tag-curiosity-rover","tag-fun","tag-hp","tag-hpq","tag-jet-propulsion-laboratory","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-opportunity","tag-rover","tag-spirit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19255"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129564,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19255\/revisions\/129564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}