{"id":215286,"date":"2025-06-03T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/perseverance-mars-rover-to-take-a-bite-of-krokodillen-region"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:07:38","slug":"perseverance-mars-rover-to-take-a-bite-of-krokodillen-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/perseverance-mars-rover-to-take-a-bite-of-krokodillen-region","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance Mars rover to take a bite of \u2018Krokodillen\u2019 region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perseverance-mars-rover-to-take-a-bite-of-krokodillen-region2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team is calling \u201cKrokodillen\u201d that may contain some of the oldest rocks on Mars. The area has been on the Perseverance science team\u2019s wish list because it marks an important boundary between the oldest rocks of Jezero Crater\u2019s rim and those of the plains beyond the crater.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last five months have been a geologic whirlwind,\u201d said Ken Farley, deputy project scientist for Perseverance from Caltech in Pasadena. \u201cAs successful as our exploration of \u2018Witch Hazel Hill\u2019 has been, our investigation of Krokodillen promises to be just as compelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Named by Perseverance mission scientists after a mountain ridge on the island of Prins Karls Forland, Norway, Krokodillen (which means \u201cthe crocodile\u201d in Norwegian) is a 73-acre (about 30-hectare) plateau of rocky outcrops located downslope to the west and south of Witch Hazel Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance Mars rover is exploring a new region of interest the team is calling \u201cKrokodillen\u201d that may contain some of the oldest rocks on Mars. The area has been on the Perseverance science team\u2019s wish list because it marks an important boundary between the oldest rocks of Jezero Crater\u2019s rim and those of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215286","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}