{"id":2555,"date":"2012-08-31T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/curiosity-puts-morse-code-in-the-martian-dust\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:28:44","slug":"curiosity-puts-morse-code-in-the-martian-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/curiosity-puts-morse-code-in-the-martian-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Puts Morse Code in the Martian Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/682453main_MainMorseCode_pia16093-673.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/682453main_MainMorseCode_pia16093-673.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Jim, K1KJW, and others alerted me to this very cool move by the inventive minds at JPL. They put a Morse Code pattern in the tire treads of the Curiosity rover. So now as it drives around, it spells out JPL in the Martian regolith. <\/span><\/b><br \/> <span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/news\/msl20120829f.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #003399; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; outline: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1346404737_0\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/news\/msl20120829f.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim, K1KJW, and others alerted me to this very cool move by the inventive minds at JPL. They put a Morse Code pattern in the tire treads of the Curiosity rover. So now as it drives around, it spells out JPL in the Martian regolith. http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/news\/msl20120829f.html Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/08\/31\/curiosity-puts-morse-code-in-the-martian-dust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curiosity Puts Morse Code in the Martian Dust&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mars","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}