{"id":3924188,"date":"2026-03-01T18:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/curiosity-studies-nodules-on-mars-boxwork-formations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:06:32","slug":"curiosity-studies-nodules-on-mars-boxwork-formations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/curiosity-studies-nodules-on-mars-boxwork-formations\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity studies nodules on Mars boxwork formations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations\u2014low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows in between. This mosaic is made up of 50 individual images taken by Curiosity&#8217;s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the end of the rover&#8217;s robotic arm, on Aug. 21, 2025, the 4,636th Martian day (sol) of the mission. Ten images at different focus settings were taken at each of five locations to produce a sharp mosaic. The images were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-curiosity-nodules-mars-boxwork-formations.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations\u2014low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows in between. This mosaic is made up of 50 individual images taken by Curiosity&#8217;s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}