{"id":85,"date":"2012-10-02T04:04:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T04:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/10\/02\/tuesday-2nd-october-sol-56\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","slug":"tuesday-2nd-october-sol-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/10\/02\/tuesday-2nd-october-sol-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 2nd October Sol 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are getting excellent close up images with MAHLI of the rocks underneath us at the rim of Glenelg.&nbsp; Soon we will pause to scoop a fine-grained sample for our XRD experiment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The MAHLI image here (width about 4&nbsp; cm)&nbsp;shows an area free of dust.&nbsp; Dust covering is a problem for a variety of Mars observations, from near Infra Red spectral imaging of the surface by orbiters like MRO, to making textural observations with the cameras on Curiosity.&nbsp; The arm\u2019s brush and drill are two ways of overcoming this.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are getting excellent close up images with MAHLI of the rocks underneath us at the rim of Glenelg.&nbsp; Soon we will pause to scoop a fine-grained sample for our XRD experiment.&nbsp; The MAHLI image here (width about 4&nbsp; cm)&nbsp;shows an area free of dust.&nbsp; Dust covering is a problem for a variety of Mars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","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\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}