{"id":2770,"date":"2026-08-03T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:32:00","slug":"poetry-for-engineers-a-martian-rover-sends-a-postcard-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"Poetry for Engineers: A Martian Rover Sends a Postcard Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/media-library\/mars-rover-on-rocky-terrain-beneath-stylized-golden-circles-and-wave-lines-on-black-sky.jpg?id=67527268&amp;width=1245&amp;height=700&amp;coordinates=0%2C187%2C0%2C188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Already, I\u2019ve almost forgotten rain;<br \/><span>I know I will never know that again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I move forward with the powers you gave me<br \/><span>to live up to my name, Curiosity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is a land without leaves, fronds, or spines.<br \/><span>If there are plants, they are small and supine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>dust hidden, like light here, filtered and sand<br \/><span>softened, at home in the thin air, thousands<\/span><\/p>\n<p>of motes so small they seem to be fluid,<br \/><span>more fog than firmament. Shadows, few and<\/span><\/p>\n<p>far from here, I know I must go to them<br \/><span>to see if they hold order or mayhem<\/span><\/p>\n<p>or just another common rock or two.<br \/><span>If a machine can miss the Earth, I do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/poem-martian-rover' target='_blank'>Read the original article on spectrum.ieee.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already, I\u2019ve almost forgotten rain;I know I will never know that again. I move forward with the powers you gave meto live up to my name, Curiosity. This is a land without leaves, fronds, or spines.If there are plants, they are small and supine, dust hidden, like light here, filtered and sandsoftened, at home in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[21,31,32],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share-suggestions","category-technology","tag-impact-xau","tag-signal-swing","tag-stage-stage-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}