{"id":19992,"date":"2012-08-07T00:06:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T07:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=19992"},"modified":"2012-08-07T00:06:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T07:06:35","slug":"curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/19992","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity meets Twitter &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Get yer&#8217; tin-foil hats on, kids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Curiosity has found Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rover, named Curiosity, which NASA has been working on for 10 years, is ON Mars. Right now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like, wow, dude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The contraption (about the size of a Mini-cooper),<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20012\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20012\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-20012  \" title=\"geography_curiosity112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/geography_curiosity112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"245\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photograph of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, was taken during mobility testing on June 3, 2011. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. NASA \/ JPL-Caltech<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">went here.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20015\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20015\" class=\" wp-image wp-image-20015 \" title=\"geography_curiosity113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/geography_curiosity113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"448\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater beginning to catch morning light. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It journeyed 352 miles (holy Martians!)\u00a0to determine if water-related clay and minerals are present on the planet. Samples of air, rocks, and soil will be taken to determine if Mars can sustain life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Essentially NASA has spent billions of dollars gathering up top scientists and mathematicians to\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">put a backhoe on a planet to see what kind of dirt is there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sounds like farming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can keep up with Curiosity Rover, that (who?)\u00a0has been chirping away on its very own Twitter account (go figure!) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsCuriosity\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Images of Mars and the landing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/multimedia\/gallery-indexEvents.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get yer&#8217; tin-foil hats on, kids. Curiosity has found Twitter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/19992\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[347,541,922],"class_list":["post-19992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","tag-geography-2","tag-mars","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}