{"id":254,"date":"2015-08-31T19:55:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2015\/08\/31\/31st-august-2015-sol-1091\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:37","slug":"31st-august-2015-sol-1091","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2015\/08\/31\/31st-august-2015-sol-1091\/","title":{"rendered":"31st August 2015 Sol 1091"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Geo Science Theme Lead today (Geo STL). \u00a0Our top priority is to retake the APXS compostional analyses \u00a0on the Buckskin drill tailings, as we missed first time around. This Navcam image shows APXS placed over the tailings on a \u00a0flat rock surface.<\/p>\n<p>The outcrop in front of us is called Williams. It has some striking crossbedding, probably due to the flow of ancient rivers into Gale Crater. \u00a0However, ChemCam has shown us that there is a great compositional variation in this outcrop so we are going to spend an extra day here before driving off. \u00a0A question is whether the compositional variation is due to remobilisation of elements by \u00a0fluids or reflects variations in the source material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Geo Science Theme Lead today (Geo STL). \u00a0Our top priority is to retake the APXS compostional analyses \u00a0on the Buckskin drill tailings, as we missed first time around. This Navcam image shows APXS placed over the tailings on a \u00a0flat rock surface. The outcrop in front of us is called Williams. It has [&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-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}