{"id":2794,"date":"2016-12-29T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2016-12-29T05:12:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:12:00","slug":"curiosity-surveys-lower-mount-sharp-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Surveys Lower Mount Sharp on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1612\/LowerMtSharp_Curiosity_1080_annotated.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>If you could stand on Mars &#8212; what might you see? If you were the Curiosity rover, then just last month you would have contemplated the featured image &#8212; a breathtaking panorama of the lower portion of Mount Sharp. The colors have been adjusted to mimic lighting familiar to Earthlings. Surveyed here was a rocky plain before increasingly high rolling hills. The rounded hills in the middle distance, called the Sulfate Unit, are Curiosity&#8217;s highest currently planned destination. One reason these hills are interesting is because sulfates are an energy source for some micro-organisms. The immediate path forward, though, was toward the southeast on the left part of the image. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2hosYXb\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you could stand on Mars &#8212; what might you see? If you were the Curiosity rover, then just last month you would have contemplated the featured image &#8212; a <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=2794\" 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-2794","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\/2794","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=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}