{"id":8683,"date":"2014-08-27T13:08:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T17:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2014-08-27T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T17:08:01","slug":"video-great-zoom-into-the-distributary-fan-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8683","title":{"rendered":"Video: Great Zoom into the Distributary Fan on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/svs.gsfc.nasa.gov\/cgi-bin\/details.cgi?aid=2880\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> created by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/svs.gsfc.nasa.gov\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s Science Visualization Studio<\/a> zooms in on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msss.com\/mars_images\/moc\/2003\/11\/13\/\" target=\"_blank\">area on Mars<\/a> where water flowed abundantly into the delta of a once great river. \u00a0(Link via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/stop-what-youre-doing-and-watch-this-nasa-video-zooming-1627132804\" target=\"_d\">io9<\/a>) :<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This is a Great Zoom into the so-called Distributary Fan on Mars. It is located just northeast of Holden Crater. As seen from Martian orbit by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) flying on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, this dramatic visualization shows us where liquid water likely flowed across the Martian surface sometime in the planet&#8217;s past.<\/em><\/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\/6W1014lggH8?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video created by\u00a0NASA&#8217;s Science Visualization Studio zooms in on an area on Mars where water flowed abundantly into the delta of a once great river. \u00a0(Link via\u00a0io9) : This is a Great Zoom into the so-called Distributary Fan on Mars. It is located just northeast of Holden Crater. As seen from Martian orbit by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Great Zoom into the Distributary Fan on Mars<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2g3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18632,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18632","url_meta":{"origin":8683,"position":0},"title":"Space sciences roundup &#8211; May.2.2019","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images from space-related science news items: ** Latest Mars exploration news: Curiosity Mission Updates - NASA Mars Curiosity Rover - \"Sols 2390-2393: Confirmation of another taste of the \"Clay-Bearing Unit\", as good as the first?\" - Curiosity drills a second hole into clay\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/NRB_609313639EDR_F0751398NCAM00309M_-br21.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9471,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9471","url_meta":{"origin":8683,"position":1},"title":"Curiosity finds new and old organic chemistry on Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from NASA JPL: NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory's drill. 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