{"id":96,"date":"2012-10-27T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/10\/27\/saturday-27th-october-sol-80\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:28:39","slug":"saturday-27th-october-sol-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/10\/27\/saturday-27th-october-sol-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 27th  October Sol 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p>The Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory contains the \u2018Scarecrow\u2019<br \/>\nCuriosity rover, used to test going over obstacles and up slopes.&nbsp; The suspension system of Curiosity has a<br \/>\nbogie (attached to 4 wheels) and rocker, with a cross bar (\u2018differential\u2019) linking<br \/>\nthe two sides. This combines to allow even distribution of mass between the 6<br \/>\nwheels.&nbsp; Watching the scarecrow pick its<br \/>\nway across the Mars Yard is encouraging for our objectives in Gale Crater.&nbsp; The science team were allowed to drive the<br \/>\nScarecrow which gave us a great feel for how it moves on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>A more detailed model in the workshop beside the Mars Yard is<br \/>\nused to test the Curiosity instruments like the drill which we will be using<br \/>\nduring the mission.&nbsp; I find it useful in<br \/>\nthe model to see how all the many smaller &nbsp;instruments and tools on Curiosity are<br \/>\ndistributed relative to each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Mars Yard at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory contains the \u2018Scarecrow\u2019 Curiosity rover, used to test going over obstacles and up slopes.&nbsp; The suspension system of Curiosity has a bogie (attached to 4 wheels) and rocker, with a cross bar (\u2018differential\u2019) linking the two sides. This combines to allow even distribution of mass between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","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\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}