{"id":122,"date":"2013-02-10T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2013\/02\/10\/february-10th-sol-182\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","slug":"february-10th-sol-182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2013\/02\/10\/february-10th-sol-182\/","title":{"rendered":"February 10th Sol 182"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest drilling has gone to 6 cm depth and we will use this for CheMin and SAM analyses.&nbsp; This is a first for Mars exploration: starting to explore the subsurface may show us different mineral and chemical assemblages from those on the oxidised surface.&nbsp;The image shows a left MastCam image of the&nbsp;John Klein outcrop, with the new drilhole.&nbsp; You can also see the pale sulphate-rich veins which cut through this sedimentary rock.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MSL aims to determine if there were ever habitable environmenst on Mars.&nbsp; Was this area&nbsp;habitable?&nbsp; That question will take a lot of work and analyses to answer.<\/p>\n<p>There was lots of excitement at the RAS meeting in London on Friday about the drilling and earlier MSL results.&nbsp; At the same meeting we also heard from the European Space Agency about their plans: the 2018 ExoMars rover has a dril which could reach down to 2 m depth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest drilling has gone to 6 cm depth and we will use this for CheMin and SAM analyses.&nbsp; This is a first for Mars exploration: starting to explore the subsurface may show us different mineral and chemical assemblages from those on the oxidised surface.&nbsp;The image shows a left MastCam image of the&nbsp;John Klein outcrop, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}