{"id":24855,"date":"2022-04-15T04:56:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24855"},"modified":"2022-04-15T04:56:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:56:15","slug":"the-gator-back-rocks-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24855","title":{"rendered":"The Gator Back Rocks of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2204\/PIA25175_1053.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Wind-sharpened rocks known as ventifacts, cover this broad sloping plain in the foot hills of Mount Sharp, Gale crater, Mars. Dubbed gator-back rocks their rugged, scaly appearance is captured in these digitally stitched Mastcam frames from the Curiosity rover on mission sol 3,415 (March 15, 2022). Driving over gator-back rocks before has resulted in damage to the rover&#8217;s wheels, so Curiosity team members decided to turn around and take another path to continue the rover&#8217;s climb. Curiosity has been on an ascent of Gale crater&#8217;s central 5.5 kilometer high mountain since 2014. As it climbs, it&#8217;s been able to study layers shaped by water on Mars billions of years ago. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220415.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind-sharpened rocks known as ventifacts, cover this broad sloping plain in the foot hills of Mount Sharp, Gale crater, Mars. Dubbed gator-back rocks their rugged, scaly appearance is captured in <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24855\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24856,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24855\/revisions\/24856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}