{"id":157254,"date":"2023-02-07T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nasa-mars-rover-finds-metallic-object-that-smashed-down-on-surface"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:30:12","slug":"nasa-mars-rover-finds-metallic-object-that-smashed-down-on-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nasa-mars-rover-finds-metallic-object-that-smashed-down-on-surface","title":{"rendered":"NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-mars-rover-finds-metallic-object-that-smashed-down-on-surface2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet\u2019s barren surface.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it appears to be an iron-nickel meteorite dubbed Cacao, which measures roughly a foot across and can be seen in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/pia25737-curiosity-finds-a-meteorite-cacao\" class=\"\">ultra-high resolution image<\/a>, stitched together from 19 individual photos taken by the rover on January 28.<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious object\u2019s lovely silver metallic hue stands out like a sore thumb in the surrounding, rust-colored landscape, a sulfate-bearing region of the Red Planet\u2019s Mount Sharp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet\u2019s barren surface. This time, it appears to be an iron-nickel meteorite dubbed Cacao, which measures roughly a foot across and can be seen in an ultra-high resolution image, stitched together from 19 individual photos taken by the rover on January [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157254","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}