{"id":902502,"date":"2026-04-30T04:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/curiosity-blog-sols-4873-4878-welcome-to-the-atacama-drill-target\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:20:11","slug":"curiosity-blog-sols-4873-4878-welcome-to-the-atacama-drill-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/curiosity-blog-sols-4873-4878-welcome-to-the-atacama-drill-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Blog, Sols 4873-4878: Welcome to the Atacama Drill Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday, April 24, 2026 There was excitement in the air as the Curiosity Science Team kicked off a drill campaign at the Atacama site to characterize the first Mount Sharp layered-sulfate bedrock since leaving the boxwork terrain&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blog\/curiosity-blog-sols-4873-4878-welcome-to-the-atacama-drill-target\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Johnathon Schildgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday, April 24, 2026 There was excitement in the air as the Curiosity Science Team kicked off a drill campaign at the Atacama site to characterize the first Mount Sharp layered-sulfate bedrock since leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22925,536,2167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-902502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-curiosity","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-welcome"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}