{"id":3413,"date":"2016-04-09T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2016-04-09T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:22:12","slug":"pluto-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/04\/09\/pluto-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(26 March 2016) covers some more of Pluto&#8217;s grandeur:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pluto\u2019s bedrock is water ice, a substance as hard as granite at Pluto\u2019s surface temperature of -240 \u00b0C. On the north-western flank of Sputnik Planum this ice-rock forms the jumbled peaks of the al-Idrisi range.<\/p>\n<p>These kilometre-high mountains are possibly floating on denser nitrogen ice below \u2013 or may once have floated, only to become beached. \u201cIt looks like you took a surface, cracked it up, and shoved the pieces up into the corner of Sputnik Planum,\u201d says Umurhan. What could have done that is a mystery.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"533\" width=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/color-swath-use-12-10-15_closeup-1200x800.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"al-Idrisi\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Four more wondrous photos and topics covered by <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22930660-200-pluto-the-dwarf-world-with-giant-mysteries\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewScientist\u00a0(26 March 2016) covers some more of Pluto&#8217;s grandeur: Pluto\u2019s bedrock is water ice, a substance as hard as granite at Pluto\u2019s surface temperature of -240 \u00b0C. On the north-western flank of Sputnik Planum this ice-rock forms the jumbled peaks of the al-Idrisi range. These kilometre-high mountains are possibly floating \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/04\/09\/pluto-2\/\"> 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-3413","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\/3413","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=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}