{"id":605609,"date":"2019-04-12T07:41:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3957ef9176780cb770f20c07d9afa575"},"modified":"2019-04-12T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:41:46","slug":"curiosity-tastes-first-sample-in-clay-bearing-unit-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=605609","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity tastes first sample in &#8216;clay-bearing unit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists working with NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover have been excited to explore a region called &#8220;the clay-bearing unit&#8221; since before the spacecraft launched. Now, the rover has finally tasted its first sample from this part of Mount Sharp. Curiosity drilled a piece of bedrock nicknamed &#8220;Aberlady&#8221; on Saturday, April 6 (the 2,370th Martian day, or sol, of the mission), and delivered the sample to its internal mineralogy lab on Wednesday, April 10 (Sol 2374).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists working with NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover have been excited to explore a region called &#8220;the clay-bearing unit&#8221; since before the spacecraft launched. Now, the rover has finally tasted its first sample from this part of Mount Sharp. Curiosity d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605609","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605610,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605609\/revisions\/605610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}