{"id":9465,"date":"2018-12-06T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9465"},"modified":"2018-12-16T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:45:16","slug":"shiny-happy-martians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/06\/shiny-happy-martians\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiny Happy Martians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/curiosity-rover-just-spotted-this-super-shiny-object-on-1830772243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from GIZMODO<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline hover-highlight entry-title js_entry-title\">Curiosity Rover Just Spotted This Super-Shiny Object on Mars<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kinja.com\/georgedvorsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Dvorsky<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7b7HpP_cmlE\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An unusually smooth and reflective Martian rock has caught the attention of NASA scientists, prompting an investigation by the Curiosity rover.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/nasas-insight-probe-just-touched-down-on-mars-heres-wha-1830658110#_ga=2.28433724.1655608500.1543248067-2075852810.1537814466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spectacularly successful landing of the InSight probe<\/a> on Mars earlier this week, our attention has understandably been diverted away from Curiosity, which has been exploring the Red Planet since 2012. While we\u2019ve been gushing over InSight, the six-wheeled NASA rover has been working at Vera Rubin Ridge, investigating the Highfield outcrop, a unique patch of grey bedrock.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity has been at the Highfield drill site before, but NASA\u2019s mission controllers wanted to take a look at four previously detected rocks\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/msl\/mission\/mars-rover-curiosity-mission-updates\/?mu=sol-2245-2246-hunting-shiny-things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including an unusually smooth rock<\/a> that, in black and white at least, looks a bit like a chunk of gold.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/curiosity-rover-just-spotted-this-super-shiny-object-on-1830772243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at GIZMODO<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from GIZMODO Curiosity Rover Just Spotted This Super-Shiny Object on Mars by\u00a0George Dvorsky An unusually smooth and reflective Martian rock has caught the attention of NASA scientists, prompting an investigation by the Curiosity rover. With the spectacularly successful landing of the InSight probe on Mars earlier this week, our attention has understandably been diverted away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}