{"id":18635,"date":"2014-01-21T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=18635"},"modified":"2014-01-21T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T13:19:00","slug":"go-home-mars-rock-youre-drunk-interplanetary-rock-makes-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/go-home-mars-rock-youre-drunk-interplanetary-rock-makes-selfie\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Home Mars Rock, You&#039;re Drunk! (Interplanetary Rock Makes Selfie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the rock on the right, and the lack of rock on the left. (Our left.)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/20\/tech\/innovation\/mars-mystery-rock\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3\">It is being reported<\/a> that this jelly-donut size rock appeared out of nowhere on the Martian surface between photographs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2014\/01\/mars_rock_mystery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2014\/01\/mars_rock_mystery-640x335.jpg?resize=604%2C316\" alt=\"mars_rock_mystery\" width=\"604\" height=\"316\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-18640\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several possible explanations for this.<\/p>\n<p>1) It grew there.<br \/>\n2) It was ejected from a steam vent or something and flew there.<br \/>\n3) This is what a Martian looks like.  It will eventually move on.<br \/>\n4) The robot that took the first picture tossed the rock up while driving by.<br \/>\n5) It is a jelly donut.<br \/>\n6) The rock was placed there to cover up a footprint.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>I love it when stuff like this happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the rock on the right, and the lack of rock on the left. (Our left.) It is being reported that this jelly-donut size rock appeared out of nowhere on the Martian surface between photographs. There are several possible explanations for this. 1) It grew there. 2) It was ejected from a steam vent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/go-home-mars-rock-youre-drunk-interplanetary-rock-makes-selfie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go Home Mars Rock, You&#039;re Drunk! (Interplanetary Rock Makes Selfie)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191,2518,3171,3170,3172,3173],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4Qz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}