{"id":129,"date":"2013-03-20T22:31:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2013\/03\/20\/march-20th-2013-sol-221\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","slug":"march-20th-2013-sol-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2013\/03\/20\/march-20th-2013-sol-221\/","title":{"rendered":"March 20th 2013 Sol 221"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 18<sup>th<\/sup> there will be a Mars solar conjunction, when Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun.&nbsp; This occurs every 26 months ie the length of the Mars year.&nbsp; That means that although the rover\u2019s memory is fixed, we will not be able to do our normal full science activities for much of April.&nbsp; Normally MSL communicates with \u2018X-band\u2019 ie 10 GHz radio waves sent via Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey and Mars Express for a few hours per day returning up to 250 Megabits of data.&nbsp; However, we now have a lot of data to use in papers for planetary science journals so we will busy.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment many of the team (including me) are at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston to present some of our results to the wider science community. I am presenting data with teams looking at the compositions of rocks and fluvial conglomerates that we have analysed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 18th there will be a Mars solar conjunction, when Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun.&nbsp; This occurs every 26 months ie the length of the Mars year.&nbsp; That means that although the rover\u2019s memory is fixed, we will not be able to do our normal full science activities for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}