{"id":6734,"date":"2009-12-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1539.html"},"modified":"2009-12-09T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:00:00","slug":"approaching-marquette-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=6734","title":{"rendered":"Approaching Marquette Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this picture of a rock informally named &#8216;Marquette Island&#8217; as it approached the rock for investigations that have suggested the rock is a stony meteorite. Opportunity used its navigation camera to record this image during the 2,056th Martian day, or sol, of the rover&#8217;s mission on Mars (Nov. 5, 2009). The dark-toned rock stood out so prominently in more distant views on earlier sols that the rover team referred to it as &#8216;Sore Thumb&#8217; before assigning the Marquette name in accord with an informal naming convention of choosing island names for the isolated rocks that the rover is finding as it crosses a relatively barren plain on its long trek from Victoria Crater toward Endeavour Crater. Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this picture of a rock informally named &#8216;Marquette Island&#8217; as it approached the rock for investigations that have suggested the rock is a stony meteorite. Opportunity used its navigation camera to record this image during the 2,056th Martian day, or sol, of the rover&#8217;s mission on Mars (Nov. 5, 2009). The dark-toned rock stood out so prominently in more distant views on earlier sols that the rover team referred to it as &#8216;Sore Thumb&#8217; before assigning the Marquette name in accord with an informal naming convention of choosing island names for the isolated rocks that the rover is finding as it crosses a relatively barren plain on its long trek from Victoria Crater toward Endeavour Crater. Image 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-6734","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\/6734","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=6734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6734\/revisions"}],"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=6734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}