{"id":3347,"date":"2013-07-12T05:38:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2013-07-12T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:38:43","slug":"curiosity-rover-update-trek-to-mount-sharp-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Rover update: Trek to Mount Sharp starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/\" target=\"_d\">Curiosity Rover<\/a> begins its journey to Mount Sharp: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vluaivJqo9w&amp;feature=em-uploademail\" target=\"_d\">Curiosity Rover Report (July 11, 2013): Trek to Mount Sharp Begins &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vluaivJqo9w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/news\/whatsnew\/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&amp;NewsID=1491\" target=\"_d\">Third Drive of Curiosity&#8217;s Long Trek Covers 135 Feet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PASADENA, Calif. &#8211; NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Curiosity drove 135 feet (41 meters) on Tuesday, July 9, the third drive of a journey of many months from the &#8220;Glenelg&#8221; area to Mount Sharp.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the mission finished investigating science targets in the Glenelg area, about 500 yards (half a kilometer) east of where Curiosity landed. The mission&#8217;s next major destination is at the lower layers of Mount Sharp, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) southwest of Glenelg. The July 9 drive brought Curiosity&#8217;s odometry to about 325 feet (99 meters) since completing the Glenelg investigations and about 0.51 mile (0.95 kilometer) since landing on Mars in August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Sharp, in the middle of Gale Crater, exposes many layers where scientists anticipate finding evidence about how the ancient Martian environment changed and evolved. At targets in the Glenelg area, where Curiosity worked for the first half of 2013, the rover found evidence for an ancient wet environment that had conditions favorable for microbial life. This means the mission already has accomplished its main science objective.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project&#8217;s Curiosity rover.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Curiosity is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/msl\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/msl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/\">http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/msl\/<\/a> . You can follow the mission on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marscuriosity\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marscuriosity<\/a> and on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/marscuriosity\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/marscuriosity<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curiosity Rover begins its journey to Mount Sharp: Curiosity Rover Report (July 11, 2013): Trek to Mount Sharp Begins &#8211; YouTube Third Drive of Curiosity&#8217;s Long Trek Covers 135 Feet PASADENA, Calif. &#8211; NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Curiosity drove 135 feet (41 meters) on Tuesday, July 9, the third drive of a journey of many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curiosity Rover update: Trek to Mount Sharp starts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-RZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3271,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3271","url_meta":{"origin":3347,"position":0},"title":"Curiosity rover begins journey to Mount Sharp","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Curiosity rover is on the move: Mars Rover Curiosity Begins Trek Toward Mount Sharp PASADENA, Calif. - With drives on July 4 and July 7, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has departed its last science target in the \"Glenelg\" area and commenced a many-month overland journey to the base of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"NSS Org","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/800x600_autoletterbox\/public\/pia17272-full_0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4405,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4405","url_meta":{"origin":3347,"position":1},"title":"Curiosity Rover &#8211; update on long drive towards Mount Sharp","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest on Curiosity's trek towards Mount Sharp: Mars Science Laboratory: Long Drive Puts NASA Mars Rover Near Planned Waypoint PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity now has a view of a patch of exposed bedrock scientists selected for a few days of close-up study, the first such study\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5120,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5120","url_meta":{"origin":3347,"position":2},"title":"JPL lets Curiosity drive on its own during trek towards Mount Sharp","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an update on Curiosity's latest activities on Mars: NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Approaches 'Cooperstown' NASA's Mars rover Curiosity completed its first two-day autonomous drive Monday, bringing the mobile laboratory to a good vantage point for pictures useful in selecting the next target the rover will reach out and touch.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"Curiosity's view of \"Cooperstown\" outcrop ","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/673xvariable_height\/public\/pia17580-full_0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8798,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8798","url_meta":{"origin":3347,"position":3},"title":"Curiosity rover update &#8211; Arrives at Mount Sharp","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest video Curiosity Rover Report from NASA JPL: We made it! 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