{"id":82,"date":"2012-09-26T23:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T23:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/09\/26\/wednesday-26th-september-sol-50\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","slug":"wednesday-26th-september-sol-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/09\/26\/wednesday-26th-september-sol-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 26th September Sol 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>We have travelled 50 metres in one sol, a new record and a great help for achieving the mission aims.<\/p>\n<p>We are&nbsp;also considering data on our calibration rock target.&nbsp; One of the things we will do with such rock analyses is compare them to other martian igneous rocks (meteorites, clasts analysed by previous landers).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This is important because basalts are formed by melting of planetary mantles.&nbsp; Thus when we determine the composition of the basalts we can see what the martian mantle is composed of, and the martian mantle is volumetrically the greatest part of a planet.&nbsp; The red colour of Mars shows that the martian mantle is iron rich.&nbsp; That in turn suggests that Mars has a relatively small metallic core compared to the Earth for instance.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You can see the way the wind has preferentially eroded one face of the Jake_Matijevich basalt rock to leave a pyramidal shape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have travelled 50 metres in one sol, a new record and a great help for achieving the mission aims. We are&nbsp;also considering data on our calibration rock target.&nbsp; One of the things we will do with such rock analyses is compare them to other martian igneous rocks (meteorites, clasts analysed by previous landers).&nbsp; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","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\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}