{"id":165845,"date":"2023-06-15T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/nasas-curiosity-rover-sends-postcard-showing-mars-during-different-times-of-the-day"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:22:24","slug":"nasas-curiosity-rover-sends-postcard-showing-mars-during-different-times-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/nasas-curiosity-rover-sends-postcard-showing-mars-during-different-times-of-the-day","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover sends \u201cpostcard\u201d showing Mars during different times of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-curiosity-rover-sends-postcard-showing-mars-during-different-times-of-the-day2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once in the hands of NASA scientists, the photos were turned into panoramic images. Color was also added to the photos, creating what NASA referred to as a \u201cpostcard,\u201d and further emphasizing the difference between the two times the photos were taken.<\/p>\n<p>The panoramic postcard shows a number of Mars landmarks, including \u201cMarker Band Valley,\u201d where Curiosity once found evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/nasa-rover-finds-clearest-evidence-yet-of-an-ancient-lake-on-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">there may have been a lake on the site<\/a>, and two hills named \u201cBolivar\u201d and \u201cDeepdale.\u201d At the edge of the photo is the rim of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-poised-for-trek-to-mount-sharp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gale Crater<\/a>, which Curiosity is currently exploring. Because the photograph was taken on a clear day, Curiosity\u2019s image even shows a mountain that is 54 miles from the edge of the crater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in the hands of NASA scientists, the photos were turned into panoramic images. Color was also added to the photos, creating what NASA referred to as a \u201cpostcard,\u201d and further emphasizing the difference between the two times the photos were taken. The panoramic postcard shows a number of Mars landmarks, including \u201cMarker Band Valley,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165845","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}