{"id":685619,"date":"2021-03-30T12:08:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685619"},"modified":"2021-03-30T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:08:44","slug":"nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-takes-selfie-with-mont-mercou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685619","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#039;s Curiosity Mars rover takes selfie with &#039;Mont Mercou&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of March, NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover began approaching an impressive rock formation that scientists dubbed &#8220;Mont Mercou,&#8221; a nickname taken from a mountain in France. Standing about 20 feet (6 meters) tall, the outcrop is captured in all its majesty in a new selfie, as well as in a pair of panoramas that offer a 3D view. The selfie shows Curiosity in front of Mont Mercou with a new drill hole nearby at a rock sample nicknamed &#8220;Nontron&#8221;\u2014the mission&#8217;s 30th sample to date.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-nasa-curiosity-mars-rover-selfie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover takes selfie with &#8216;Mont Mercou&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of March, NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover began approaching an impressive rock formation that scientists dubbed &#8220;Mont Mercou,&#8221; a nickname taken from a mountain in France. Standing about&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685619","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685619\/revisions"}],"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=685619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}