{"id":226,"date":"2014-12-10T00:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T00:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/12\/10\/10th-december-2014-sol-833\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","slug":"10th-december-2014-sol-833","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2014\/12\/10\/10th-december-2014-sol-833\/","title":{"rendered":"10th December 2014 Sol 833"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Pahrump we are considering potential drill sites.\u00a0 The heavy signs of veining and water will make for an interesting mineralogical\u00a0and fluid composition study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile as a benchmark in the mission&#8217;s progress there has been a public announcement about the Mt Sharp results, which includes the sediments we have been studying as we have drive around in\u00a0Pahrump.\u00a0 From the early\u00a0sols of the misioin e.g. Hottah, Link localities we knew we had fluvial river depsits but the flat lying sediments and cross bedding suggest that Gale has also preserved lake deposts.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the classic Mars Global Surveyor wide angle view of Mars and its atmosphere you can see the heaviliy cratered surface of Mars.\u00a0 Many craters have sediment mountains and signs of rivers.\u00a0 So there were probably\u00a0widespread lakes at this time\u00a0on Mars&#8217; ~3.7 billion years ago.\u00a0 An ocean on Mars used to seem implausible, but our ideas\u00a0about Mars \u00a0are now evolving so rapidly that such theories will be revisited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Pahrump we are considering potential drill sites.\u00a0 The heavy signs of veining and water will make for an interesting mineralogical\u00a0and fluid composition study.\u00a0 Meanwhile as a benchmark in the mission&#8217;s progress there has been a public announcement about the Mt Sharp results, which includes the sediments we have been studying as we have drive [&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-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}