{"id":204,"date":"2014-07-02T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/07\/02\/2nd-july-2014-sol-678\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","slug":"2nd-july-2014-sol-678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/07\/02\/2nd-july-2014-sol-678\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd July 2014  Sol 678"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a new classic image from Mars: a selfie from Kimberley. \u00a0You can see the dark drill hole and the practice drill hole beside it. \u00a0Curiosity itself is looking a bit dusty after a year&#8217;s work on Mars. \u00a0Images like this always remind me how big the rover is in relation to many of the outcrops we are looking at. \u00a0Keeping track of the scale of rocks is always important.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of all our driving &#8211; a total of about 8 km &#8211; \u00a0we have just passed across our the line of our original 20 km diameter landing ellipse.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile at Terra Meridiani &#8211; site of the solar powered MER rover Opportunity, which landed in January 2004, has named a site at Endeavour Crater, Pillinger Point. \u00a0This is in honour of Colin Pillinger &#8211; the lead scientist behind the Beagle2 mission and a man who did much to push forward planetary science in the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a new classic image from Mars: a selfie from Kimberley. \u00a0You can see the dark drill hole and the practice drill hole beside it. \u00a0Curiosity itself is looking a bit dusty after a year&#8217;s work on Mars. \u00a0Images like this always remind me how big the rover is in relation to many of [&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-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}