{"id":166483,"date":"2023-06-27T02:24:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T07:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/boulder-bonanza-science-and-sampling-attempts-at-the-onahu-outcrop-on-mars"},"modified":"2023-06-27T02:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T07:24:15","slug":"boulder-bonanza-science-and-sampling-attempts-at-the-onahu-outcrop-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/boulder-bonanza-science-and-sampling-attempts-at-the-onahu-outcrop-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Boulder Bonanza! Science and Sampling Attempts at the Onahu Outcrop on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boulder-bonanza-science-and-sampling-attempts-at-the-onahu-outcrop-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mars Perseverance Rover struggled to collect samples from a crumbly, potentially conglomerate rock at the Onahu outcrop, before exploring another location, Stone Man Pass. Meanwhile, the rover continues to analyze nearby boulders and progress towards Jezero\u2019s inner rim, home to the anticipated carbonate-rich \u201cmargin unit,\u201d in pursuit of insights into Mars\u2019 geological history.<\/p>\n<p>Recently on Mars, Perseverance wrestled with sampling a crumbly rock and continued the mission\u2019s boulder-bonanza!<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance spent 3 weeks exploring the Onahu outcrop, after having previously performed an abrasion named Ouzel Falls. From this abrasion, scientists saw that the rock is most likely a conglomerate worth sampling, but was also likely to be crumbly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars Perseverance Rover struggled to collect samples from a crumbly, potentially conglomerate rock at the Onahu outcrop, before exploring another location, Stone Man Pass. Meanwhile, the rover continues to analyze nearby boulders and progress towards Jezero\u2019s inner rim, home to the anticipated carbonate-rich \u201cmargin unit,\u201d in pursuit of insights into Mars\u2019 geological history. Recently on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166483","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=166483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}