{"id":140,"date":"2013-06-05T20:03:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2013\/06\/05\/5th-june-2013-sol-296\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:38","slug":"5th-june-2013-sol-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2013\/06\/05\/5th-june-2013-sol-296\/","title":{"rendered":"5th June 2013 Sol 296"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest puzzle for us is Point Lake.\u00a0 This small (tens of cm high) promotory in Yellowknife has unusual textures which looked at from our current distance might be gas bubbles (vesicles)\u00a0in a lava or voids in a sedimentary rock.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If it really is\u00a0a lava flow it would have poured over the underlying sediments and veins we are studying.\u00a0 That might have released volatiles from the underlying mudstone.\u00a0A sedimentary rock that\u00a0fluids have corroded woudl be equally exciting.\u00a0But thats speculation&#8230; we certainly dont know because experience with Curiosity tells us that high resolution\u00a0views from the ChemCam remote microimager (RMI) and MAHLI will reveal much more (up to about\u00a00.1 mm\u00a0resolution).\u00a0 So, we are planning to drive up to and study Point Lake within the next few sols.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the first few sols after landing.\u00a0 We thought we were seeing rounded clasts at Goulburn but it wasnt until we drove up to the outcrop that we could work out with confidence what was really there and unpicked an important piece of Mars history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest puzzle for us is Point Lake.\u00a0 This small (tens of cm high) promotory in Yellowknife has unusual textures which looked at from our current distance might be gas bubbles (vesicles)\u00a0in a lava or voids in a sedimentary rock.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If it really is\u00a0a lava flow it would have poured over the underlying sediments and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","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\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}