{"id":70,"date":"2012-09-07T23:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T23:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/09\/07\/friday-7th-september-sol-32\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:38:20","slug":"friday-7th-september-sol-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/09\/07\/friday-7th-september-sol-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 7th September Sol 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are testing out the robotic arm for the next few sols.&nbsp; This 70 kg instrument is essential to the long term success of the mission as it carries the Alpha particle source X-ray Spectrometer (for elemental compositions of rocks), a brush to get rid of dust from rock surfaces, the microscopic imager (MAHLI), the drill head and scoop.&nbsp; We will use the latter for the first sampling of Mars dust by X-ray diffraction later in the mission, on our way to GlenElg.&nbsp; It has been tested on Earth, but Mars&#8217; gravity is a third of that, so its movement needs to be checked.<\/p>\n<p>One sol 35 I will be Mineralogy Theme Lead for a few sols, we will have to plan our science activities, making sure they fit in with the instrument testing and taking Flat and Dark frames. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are testing out the robotic arm for the next few sols.&nbsp; This 70 kg instrument is essential to the long term success of the mission as it carries the Alpha particle source X-ray Spectrometer (for elemental compositions of rocks), a brush to get rid of dust from rock surfaces, the microscopic imager (MAHLI), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","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\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}