{"id":238,"date":"2015-03-15T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2015\/03\/15\/15th-march-2015-sol-926\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","slug":"15th-march-2015-sol-926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2015\/03\/15\/15th-march-2015-sol-926\/","title":{"rendered":"15th March 2015 Sol 926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have started moving off from Pahrump, towards our next main Waypoint at Artist&#8217;s Drive. \u00a0This remarkable site of large sulfate veins is in front of us at Garden City. \u00a0Such a large concentration suggests that we may be getting closer to a sedimentary layer of evaporite salts, as we progress through the foothills of Mt. Sharp. \u00a0The middle parts of Mt Sharp show signs of sulphate enrichment because of their spectral signature in the near infra red parts of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>This week is also the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston (home of the NASA Johnson Space Centre). \u00a0There will be a lot of discussion about MSL results, I am giving a talk about Hematite Ridge &#8211; one of the main MSL targets &#8211; \u00a0and how it might have formed through martian weathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have started moving off from Pahrump, towards our next main Waypoint at Artist&#8217;s Drive. \u00a0This remarkable site of large sulfate veins is in front of us at Garden City. \u00a0Such a large concentration suggests that we may be getting closer to a sedimentary layer of evaporite salts, as we progress through the foothills 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-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}