{"id":202,"date":"2014-06-18T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/06\/18\/18th-june-2014-sol-644\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","slug":"18th-june-2014-sol-644","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/06\/18\/18th-june-2014-sol-644\/","title":{"rendered":"18th June 2014 Sol 664"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am GeoSTL lead.\u00a0 As we approach our first martian year we are concentrating on driving.\u00a0 We recently managed 120 m in one sol.\u00a0 Some of the time we use AutoNav drives, though beforehand we plan\u00a0to\u00a0avoid boulder fields in the hazard and navcam images.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This NavCam image shows what we are calling Robert Frost Slope East on the left hand side of the photograph.\u00a0\u00a0On the top of that is\u00a0what we call the &#8216;Capping Unit&#8217; which is a dark, hard rock which overlies the sloping rocks of conglomerate.\u00a0 This capping unit is an interesting target for ChemCam (when we can reach it within about 4-5 m distance) because it seems to have more alkaline compositions.\u00a0 Unfortunately its hardness is not what we want for driving over!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am GeoSTL lead.\u00a0 As we approach our first martian year we are concentrating on driving.\u00a0 We recently managed 120 m in one sol.\u00a0 Some of the time we use AutoNav drives, though beforehand we plan\u00a0to\u00a0avoid boulder fields in the hazard and navcam images.\u00a0 This NavCam image shows what we are calling Robert Frost [&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-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","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=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}