{"id":427,"date":"2017-09-12T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/?p=427"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:36","slug":"12th-september-2017-sol-1814-curiositys-view-across-gale-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2017\/09\/12\/12th-september-2017-sol-1814-curiositys-view-across-gale-crater\/","title":{"rendered":"12th September 2017 Sol 1814 &#8211; Curiosity&#8217;s View Across Gale Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_428\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-428\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/files\/2017\/09\/Cropped-tiles-of-1813-VRR-landscape-300x276.gif\" alt=\"Vera Rubin Ridge, MSL, Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/files\/2017\/09\/Cropped-tiles-of-1813-VRR-landscape-300x276.gif 300w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/files\/2017\/09\/Cropped-tiles-of-1813-VRR-landscape-768x706.gif 768w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/files\/2017\/09\/Cropped-tiles-of-1813-VRR-landscape-1024x942.gif 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from Vera Rubin Ridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Curiosity Rover has reached an elevation of 300 metres above our landing site. \u00a0We have made it up the first part of Vera Rubin Ridge and are now starting to get some views down and over the Gale Crater plains. \u00a0The crater rim mountains can be seen in the distance. This is a navigation Camera image, which are often returned more quickly than the MastCam science images, as they are needed for planning drives. \u00a0After a lot of work by the engineering teams \u00a0we aim to start using the drill again soon to determine the mineralogy of this ridge and work out how it formed 4 billion years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Curiosity Rover has reached an elevation of 300 metres above our landing site. \u00a0We have made it up the first part of Vera Rubin Ridge and are now starting to get some views down and over the Gale Crater plains. \u00a0The crater rim mountains can be seen in the distance. This is a [&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-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}