{"id":14,"date":"2017-05-30T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/?p=14"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:36","slug":"30th-may-2017-sol-1711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2017\/05\/30\/30th-may-2017-sol-1711\/","title":{"rendered":"30th May 2017 Sol 1711"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Navigation camera image gives \u00a0feel for the slopes of Aeolis Mons that we are climbing now. \u00a0Daily drives often now ascend ~2 m and we have more battery recharging days.<\/p>\n<p>We are just a \u00a0few drives from Vera Rubin Ridge (VRR) where we will test the &#8216;ground truth&#8217; for the orbital identification of the iron oxide hematite. For the next few days and once we are at VRR we will be taking ChemCam and other data to check compositional changes. \u00a0One hypothesis we have been working on is that VRR may have been exposed to near surface conditions with the flow of large amounts of oxidising groundwater.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/files\/2017\/05\/VRR_NLB_549391757EDR_F0632008NCAM00279M_-300x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/files\/2017\/05\/VRR_NLB_549391757EDR_F0632008NCAM00279M_-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/files\/2017\/05\/VRR_NLB_549391757EDR_F0632008NCAM00279M_-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/files\/2017\/05\/VRR_NLB_549391757EDR_F0632008NCAM00279M_-768x768.gif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The approach upslope to Vera Rubin (Hematite) Ridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Navigation camera image gives \u00a0feel for the slopes of Aeolis Mons that we are climbing now. \u00a0Daily drives often now ascend ~2 m and we have more battery recharging days. We are just a \u00a0few drives from Vera Rubin Ridge (VRR) where we will test the &#8216;ground truth&#8217; for the orbital identification of the [&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-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","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=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}