{"id":126470,"date":"2021-08-19T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-finds-a-changing-landscape"},"modified":"2021-08-19T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:23:07","slug":"nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-finds-a-changing-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-finds-a-changing-landscape","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars Rover Finds A Changing Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8DZl56tS9ko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover explores Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the basin of Gale Crater on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity\u2019s Deputy Project Scientist, Abigail Fraeman of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, gives viewers a descriptive tour of Curiosity\u2019s location. The panorama was captured by the rover\u2019s Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on July 3 2021, the 3,167th Martian day, or sol, of its mission.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity landed nine years ago on August 5 2012, with a mission to study whether different Martian environments could have supported microbial life in the ancient past, when long-lived lakes and groundwater existed within Gale Crater.<\/p>\n<p>For more about Curiosity, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/msl\/home\/\">https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/msl\/home\/<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nasa.gov\/msl\/\">https:\/\/nasa.gov\/msl\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover explores Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the basin of Gale Crater on Mars. Curiosity\u2019s Deputy Project Scientist, Abigail Fraeman of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, gives viewers a descriptive tour of Curiosity\u2019s location. The panorama was captured by the rover\u2019s Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on July 3 2021, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}