{"id":209762,"date":"2013-07-10T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/multimedia\/pia17269.html"},"modified":"2013-07-10T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T00:00:00","slug":"curiosity-heading-for-mount-sharp-sol-329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=209762","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Heading for Mount Sharp, Sol 329"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lower slopes of Mount Sharp appear at the top of this image taken by the right Navigation Camera (Navcam) of NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Curiosity at the end of a drive of about 135 feet (41 meters) during the 329th Martian day, or sol, of the rover&#8217;s work on Mars (July 9, 2013).\u00a0 That was the third drive by Curiosity since finishing observations at the mission&#8217;s final science target in the &#8220;Glenelg&#8221; area east of the rover&#8217;s landing site. The planned entry point to the lower layers of Mount Sharp, the mission&#8217;s next major destination, lies about 5 miles (8 kilometers) to the southwest.<br \/>\nThe turret of tools at the end of Curiosity&#8217;s robotic arm is in the foreground, with the rover&#8217;s rock-sampling drill in the lower left corner of the image.<br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lower slopes of Mount Sharp appear at the top of this image taken by the right Navigation Camera (Navcam) of NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Curiosity at the end of a drive of about 135 feet (41 meters) during the 329th Martian day, or sol, of the rover&#8217;s work on Mars (July 9, 2013).\u00a0 That was the third drive by Curiosity since finishing observations at the mission&#8217;s final science target in the &#8220;Glenelg&#8221; area east of the rover&#8217;s landing site. The planned entry point to the lower layers of Mount Sharp, the mission&#8217;s next major destination, lies about 5 miles (8 kilometers) to the southwest.<br \/>\nThe turret of tools at the end of Curiosity&#8217;s robotic arm is in the foreground, with the rover&#8217;s rock-sampling drill in the lower left corner of the image.<br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209878,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209762\/revisions\/209878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}