{"id":246,"date":"2015-05-30T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2015\/05\/30\/30th-may-2015-sol-1000\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","slug":"30th-may-2015-sol-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2015\/05\/30\/30th-may-2015-sol-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"30th May 2015 Sol 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An MSL landmark day. \u00a0We have reached 1000 sols on Mars. \u00a0Looking back the remarkable thing is how few serious problems there have been, and when a technical problem has appeared like the focusing laser on ChemCam, a solution has been found.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is one issue even Curiosity cant avoid &#8211; Conjunction. \u00a0For much of June Mars will be obscured from Earth by the Sun. \u00a0Few science operations, and so a good time to have the next MSL team meeting in Paris. \u00a0We will have half as much contact via the orbiters.<\/p>\n<p>On Mars we are analysing the Ronan outcrop at the Pahrump\/Stimson contact. \u00a0In preparation for Conjunction we now have to stow the arm and make sure the rover is set for a prolonged period of no driving and limited activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MSL landmark day. \u00a0We have reached 1000 sols on Mars. \u00a0Looking back the remarkable thing is how few serious problems there have been, and when a technical problem has appeared like the focusing laser on ChemCam, a solution has been found. However, there is one issue even Curiosity cant avoid &#8211; Conjunction. \u00a0For much [&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-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}