{"id":4561,"date":"2022-03-23T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T22:01:01","slug":"searching-for-ground-truth-on-mars-with-nasas-curiosity-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/searching-for-ground-truth-on-mars-with-nasas-curiosity-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for \u2018ground truth\u2019 on Mars with NASA\u2019s Curiosity Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mount-Sharp-768x548.jpg\" alt=\"Mount Sharp on Mars\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even before he joined NAU\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science in 2016, <strong>Christopher Edwards<\/strong> was already a participating scientist on the MSL team, funded through a grant of $470,000. In addition to funding his research, the grant enabled him to build the Mars Rover Operations and Analysis Laboratory on NAU\u2019s Flagstaff campus, where faculty researchers and students use sophisticated equipment to help command the day-to-day activities of the rover.<\/p>\n<p>See the article <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/mars-lab-curiosity-rover\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before he joined NAU\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science in 2016, Christopher Edwards was already a participating scientist on the MSL team, funded through a grant of $470,000. In addition to funding his research, the grant enabled him to build the Mars Rover Operations and Analysis Laboratory on NAU\u2019s Flagstaff campus, where faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[218,219,114],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-curiosity-rover","tag-edwards","tag-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4563,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}