{"id":287,"date":"2014-12-09T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=287"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:37:43","slug":"today-in-space-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Today in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/thumbnails\/image\/pia19074-figa_grotz-1_0712mr03030rsb_sc.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>This evenly layered rock photographed by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars Rover shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit not far from where flowing water entered a lake.<br \/>\nThe scene combines multiple frames taken with Mastcam&#8217;s right-eye camera on Aug. 7, 2014, during the 712th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity&#8217;s work on Mars. It shows an outcrop at the edge of &#8220;Hidden Valley,&#8221; seen from the valley floor.\u00a0 This view spans about 5 feet (1.5 meters) across in the foreground.\u00a0 The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth. Figure A is a version with a superimposed scale bar of 50 centimeters (about 20 inches).<br \/>\nThis is an example of a thick-laminated, evenly-stratified rock type that forms stratigraphically beneath cross-bedded sandstones regarded as ancient river deposits.\u00a0 These rocks are interpreted to record sedimentation in a lake, as part of or in front of a delta, where plumes of river sediment settled out of the water column and onto the lake floor.\u00a0<br \/>\nNASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project&#8217;s Curiosity rover.\u00a0 Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover&#8217;s Mastcam. For more information about Curiosity, visit http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/msl and http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n> Unannotated image<br \/>\n> Related: NASA\u2019s Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS via NASA http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/msl\/pia19074<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evenly layered rock photographed by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars Rover shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit not far from where flowing water entered a lake. The scene combines multiple frames taken with Mastcam&#8217;s right-eye camera on Aug. 7, 2014, during the 712th Martian day, or sol, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13,39],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}