{"id":201,"date":"2014-06-04T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/06\/04\/4th-june-210-sol-651\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","slug":"4th-june-210-sol-651","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/06\/04\/4th-june-210-sol-651\/","title":{"rendered":"4th June 210 Sol 651"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new role for me as I join the HiRISE camera team for an operations\/image\u00a0selection\u00a0role for the first time.\u00a0 HiRISE produces up to 30 cm\/pixel images (anotherwords we can identify metre-scale objects) and take stereo images of the surface of Mars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HiRISE\u00a0 is critical in the choice of landing sites including Gale Crater for MSL.\u00a0 The orbiter that carries HiRISE (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) also acts a relay for Curiosity so there has to be a balance between the different requirements, neither MSL nor HiRISE can get all the data capability they might want all the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is an image taken by HiRISE with our current location at sol 649 as we concentrate on driving towards the Murray Buttes path across the dunes to Mt. Sharp.\u00a0 I think it shows how remote and challenging a rover mission to Mars is, as each daily drive shown on the image is about 30-100 m.\u00a0 Inside Curiosity we continue to analyse the Kimberley samples with CheMin and SAM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new role for me as I join the HiRISE camera team for an operations\/image\u00a0selection\u00a0role for the first time.\u00a0 HiRISE produces up to 30 cm\/pixel images (anotherwords we can identify metre-scale objects) and take stereo images of the surface of Mars.\u00a0 HiRISE\u00a0 is critical in the choice of landing sites including Gale Crater for MSL.\u00a0 [&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-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}