{"id":1871,"date":"2012-08-29T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2012-08-29T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T09:17:13","slug":"nasas-curiosity-rover-some-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/08\/29\/nasas-curiosity-rover-some-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#039;s Curiosity rover: some pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I though I would link to some of the wonderful pictures of Mars taken by Curiosity.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/680992main_pia16102-43_800-600.jpg\" alt=\"looking west\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking south-southwest from the rover&#8217;s landing site in Gale Crater.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/680949main_pia16100-43_800-600.jpg\" alt=\"mars\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a panorama of the landing site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/681002main_pia16099-43_800-600.jpg\" alt=\"mars\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Mount Sharp, a mountain inside Gale Crater, where the rover landed. Below the line of white dots, are relatively flat-lying strata that bear hydrated minerals. Hydrated minerals were not detected by the orbiters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/681051main_pia16105-43_800-600.jpg\" alt=\"mars\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The layered base of Mount Sharp.<\/p>\n<p>I for one think the images are just wonderful and I am sure they contain lots of good science. I will let the geologists and planetary scientists comment on that further. <\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>All the pictures here are taken from NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/index.html\" title=\"Mars Science Laboratory\" target=\"_blank\">Mars Science Laboratory website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I though I would link to some of the wonderful pictures of Mars taken by Curiosity. Looking south-southwest from the rover&#8217;s landing site in Gale Crater. Here is a panorama of the landing site. Mount Sharp, a mountain inside Gale Crater, where the rover landed. Below the line of white dots, are relatively flat-lying strata &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/08\/29\/nasas-curiosity-rover-some-pictures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA&#039;s Curiosity rover: some pictures<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}