{"id":157,"date":"2013-08-29T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2013\/08\/29\/29th-august-2013-sol-378\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:38","slug":"29th-august-2013-sol-378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2013\/08\/29\/29th-august-2013-sol-378\/","title":{"rendered":"29th August 2013 Sol 378"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now about 300 m from Waypoint1. \u00a0That is one of the stopping off points on the way to the clay-rich horizon of Mt. Sharp. \u00a0We will take the opportunity to deploy more of the Curiosity instruments.<\/p>\n<p>The terrain has a light toned outcrop with similarities to the conglomerates we have been seeing since landing and darker &#8216;float&#8217; rocks, which seem igneous,scattered over it. \u00a0On sol 378 we used autonomous navigation. This is something that Mars mission planners have been thinking of for some time.\u00a0\u00a0On MSL it\u00a0can mean that we are able to drive further per day as small potential obstacles can be safely identified on the rover without the need for human intervention. \u00a0How far autonomy could go in replacing the role of scientists in identifying interesting targets is a subject of debate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now about 300 m from Waypoint1. \u00a0That is one of the stopping off points on the way to the clay-rich horizon of Mt. Sharp. \u00a0We will take the opportunity to deploy more of the Curiosity instruments. The terrain has a light toned outcrop with similarities to the conglomerates we have been seeing since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","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\/157","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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}