{"id":3826,"date":"2011-03-19T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2011-03-19T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T17:04:12","slug":"sampling-the-seafloor-with-a-lunar-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/03\/19\/sampling-the-seafloor-with-a-lunar-lander\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampling the Seafloor with a Lunar Lander?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3827\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/geo-cruise-deep-sea-core.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3827\" title=\"Geo Cruise Deep Sea Core\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/geo-cruise-deep-sea-core.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/geo-cruise-deep-sea-core.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/geo-cruise-deep-sea-core-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/geo-cruise-deep-sea-core-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collecting samples from the deep aboard the Research Vessel Point Sur. (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just like a space rover, this instrument is designed to help us study places that are inhospitable to people.\u00a0 But rather than the furthest reaches of space,\u00a0 this corer travels to the depths of the sea to where it collects cores of the mud and sand on the ocean floor.\u00a0 Geological oceanographers like MLML professor Ivan Aiello (left) can use the samples to learn how different geologic features\u00a0 in an area formed throughout history &#8211; in this case, the study site is Monterey Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like a space rover, this instrument is designed to help us study places that are inhospitable to people.\u00a0 But rather than the furthest reaches of space,\u00a0 this corer travels to the depths of the sea to where it collects cores of the mud and sand on the ocean floor.\u00a0 Geological oceanographers like MLML professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}