{"id":3343,"date":"2021-02-19T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2021-02-19T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:24:28","slug":"feb-2021-mars-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"Feb 2021 – Mars Month?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Map<\/a>
Map of the global topology of Mars overlaid with locations of landers and rovers<\/a> <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

18th February:  Nasa has managed to crane their rover and helicopter into the Jezero Crater on Mars.  It\u2019s now about 2km from what is thought to be an ancient (that\u2019s 4 billion years ago!) river delta that fed a huge lake.  Jezero is a small town in Bosnia with a population of 1100, Jezero means lake in a number of Slavic languages.  This crater was named in 2007 by the IAU as part of a project to name significant craters after small towns and villages in the world.
\nNow we await the testing of Perseverance and Ingenuity\u2019s\u2019 systems and for the science data to start to come back.<\/p>\n

Mars2020 now joins the two other visitors to Mars this month:-
\n1)   On the 9th<\/sup> February the successful mission by the UAE to put the Al Amal (Hope) Probe into orbit to study the Martian atmosphere amongst other objectives.  This makes the UAE the 5th<\/sup> country to reach Mars and the second to enter orbit on it\u2019s first try;  and
\n2)   Followed on the 10th<\/sup> February by the successful insertion of Chinas\u2019 first mission to Mars, Tianwen-1, into orbit.   It also carries a rover that is scheduled to land in May or June.  The Tianwen-1 rover includes a ground penetrating radar that can “see” up to 100m below the surface.<\/p>\n

Emirates Mars Mission \u2013 LINK<\/a>     :     Tianwen-1 \u2013 LINK<\/a>     :     Mars2020 – LINK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

18th February:  Nasa has managed to crane their rover and helicopter into the Jezero Crater on Mars.  It\u2019s now about 2km from what is thought to be an ancient (that\u2019s 4 billion years ago!) river delta that fed a huge lake.  Jezero is a small town in Bosnia with a population of 1100, Jezero means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}