{"id":3632,"date":"2009-12-28T19:55:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-new-martian-crater\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:55:56","slug":"a-new-martian-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/a-new-martian-crater.php","title":{"rendered":"A New Martian Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/mro122809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ba781_mro122309blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>A very recent Martian crater.   Click for a larger version (~100k).  Credit: NASA\/JPL\/University of Arizona<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>Pretty new anyways.&nbsp; The crater is pretty small being only 18 feet (5.5 meters) across. This little crater was formed between January 2006 and May 2008.<\/p><p>The crater was found because this area has been imaged earlier with the Themis instrument and no spot was present.&nbsp; Then more recently the CTX camera was being used to&nbsp; survey the Martian surface, the CTX is used because it has lower resolution and therefore more area can be covered to look for changes.&nbsp; When the same area was imaged and the photos compared a dark spot was noted.<\/p><p>Since the CTX instrument could only detect the spot but not resolve it because the crater is about the size of a single pixel, the HiRise instrument was used to take a hi resolution image of the spot.&nbsp; The spot of course turned out to be the crater and the dark area around it.<\/p><p>Click the image for more of the area around the crater.&nbsp; A larger version of the image can be found at the <a title=\"See this at the HiRise website\" href=\"http:\/\/hirise.lpl.arizona.edu\/PSP_010862_1880\" target=\"_blank\">HiRise site<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very recent Martian crater. Click for a larger version (~100k). Credit: NASA\/JPL\/University of ArizonaPretty new anyways.&nbsp; The crater is pretty small being only 18 feet (5.5 meters) across. This little crater was formed between January 2006 and May 2008.The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/a-new-martian-crater.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}