{"id":53,"date":"2012-08-20T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/08\/20\/sunday-august-14th-sol-14\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:38:20","slug":"sunday-august-14th-sol-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/08\/20\/sunday-august-14th-sol-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday August 19th Sol 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent ChemCam &nbsp;LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Results) on our first rock.&nbsp; This means that in addition to imaging data from MastCam we are now getting compositional data.&nbsp; ChemCam will be one of the most frequently used techniques on Curiosity.&nbsp; It will be essential to analyse rocks and ground surfaces before the X-ray Diffraction and X-ray fluorescence experiments which require deployment of the robotic arm and thus take up more time.&nbsp; We are now getting used to using the software to plan analyses using ChemCam at an appropriate azimuth, elevation and distance from the Curiosity mast.<\/p>\n<p>The image shows the first target &#8216;Coronation&#8217; for ChemCam.&nbsp; The pyramidal type shape has resulted from the wind sculpting the rock to create surfaces called ventifacts.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent ChemCam &nbsp;LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Results) on our first rock.&nbsp; This means that in addition to imaging data from MastCam we are now getting compositional data.&nbsp; ChemCam will be one of the most frequently used techniques on Curiosity.&nbsp; It will be essential to analyse rocks and ground surfaces before the X-ray Diffraction and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","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\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}