{"id":45,"date":"2012-08-11T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/08\/11\/saturday-11th-august-sol-5\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:38:20","slug":"saturday-11th-august-sol-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/08\/11\/saturday-11th-august-sol-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 11th August Sol 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The software upload is going ahead as planned.&nbsp; This gives us a breathing space to review the images and plan ahead.&nbsp; The big question is how long do we delay going to the clay outcrop at the bottom of Mt. Sharp?&nbsp; Should we investigate parts of our landing ellipse in more detail deviating from the most direct path to the sedimentary mountain?&nbsp; Trouble is it will take hundreds of sols to do everything we want to do.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first sample analyses within Curiosity will be a scoop of fines from the uppermost few cm of soil but first we will want to get out of the contamination zone, where the retrorockets have left ammonia and hydrazine.&nbsp; We could start roving within the next 10 sols.<\/p>\n<p>One of the enjoyable aspects of MSL is naming things.&nbsp; I get \u2018Torridon\u2019 for the area I have been mapping.&nbsp; Thats an area in NW Scotland which has ancient redbed sediments \u2013 appropriate for Mars I think.&nbsp; Hopefully we can name some localities after famous Leicestershire localities at some point.&nbsp; However, we have to stick to the International Astronomical Union Rules of nomenclature, so the names must be of recognised formations on Earth close to a town of &lt;100 000 inhabitants.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The software upload is going ahead as planned.&nbsp; This gives us a breathing space to review the images and plan ahead.&nbsp; The big question is how long do we delay going to the clay outcrop at the bottom of Mt. Sharp?&nbsp; Should we investigate parts of our landing ellipse in more detail deviating from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}