{"id":86,"date":"2012-10-03T20:41:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/10\/03\/wednesday-3rd-october-sol-57\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","slug":"wednesday-3rd-october-sol-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/10\/03\/wednesday-3rd-october-sol-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 3rd October Sol 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nhazard cameras onboard Curiosity can give a valuable low angle view of the ground surface<br \/>\nin front of the rover.&nbsp; Here we see the small<br \/>\nridge of dust and sand that we will scoop for our imminent experiments.&nbsp; Dust can be useful as well as a<br \/>\nnuisance.&nbsp; Because it is fine grained it<br \/>\nhas been blown over wide regions and thus homogenised its composition.&nbsp; So when we analyse dusty soil we are getting an average crustal composition and set of minerals. That will&nbsp; be a valuable addition to our knowledge of Mars and a good way of comparing to other planetary crusts, revealing any fluid processes that may have altered the martian crust over time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We will also be analyzing the rocks surrounding the dust sampling area to determine their origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The hazard cameras onboard Curiosity can give a valuable low angle view of the ground surface in front of the rover.&nbsp; Here we see the small ridge of dust and sand that we will scoop for our imminent experiments.&nbsp; Dust can be useful as well as a nuisance.&nbsp; Because it is fine grained it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","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\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}