{"id":2354,"date":"2015-10-06T23:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2015-10-06T23:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:14:35","slug":"the-weather-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/06\/the-weather-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weather is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22730403-500-rosettawatch-comet-67ps-weather-revealed-as-sun-melts-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rosetta Probe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rosetta space probe has spotted a square-kilometre field of solid ice in the neck region of comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet\u2019s day-night cycle drives its small weather system using the ice field, sublimating the ice into vapour when the sun rises.<\/p>\n<p>The ice was spotted in data gathered last August using Rosetta\u2019s VIRTIS instrument \u2013 a spectrometer designed to map the comet\u2019s chemical composition. The water signal was stronger when the neck was in shadow and weaker during the comet\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-img-full wp-image-2058787\" title=\"Rosettawatch: Comet 67P's weather revealed as sun melts ice\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mg22730403.500-1_800.jpg?w=800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rosettawatch: Comet 67P's weather revealed as sun melts ice\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> 26 September 2015, paywall)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least according to the Rosetta Probe: The Rosetta space probe has spotted a square-kilometre field of solid ice in the neck region of comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet\u2019s day-night cycle drives its small weather system using the ice field, sublimating the ice into vapour when the sun rises. The \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/06\/the-weather-is-good\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}