{"id":1001,"date":"2016-09-03T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:05:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:05:52","slug":"ice-volcano-on-ceres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Ice Volcano on Ceres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists studying dwarf planet Ceres have found that a \u00a013,000-foot volcano there arose not from silicic magma, but from muddy, salty ice that rose to the ~160 K surface and quick-froze like Smucker\u2019s<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Magic Shell.<\/p>\n<p>Finding such a dramatic cryovolcanic process this close to the sun \u2013 in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter \u2013 is unusual, and bolsters the idea that Ceres might have originated in the outer solar system. It also lends credence to the notion that asteroids and comets might be more closely related than once thought.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to \u00a0my full story at KJZZ&#8217;s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/content\/359704\/13000-foot-mountain-dwarf-planet-ceres-may-be-ice-volcano\" target=\"_blank\">13,000-Foot Mountain On Dwarf Planet Ceres May Be An Ice Volcano<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists studying dwarf planet Ceres have found that a \u00a013,000-foot volcano there arose not from silicic magma, but from muddy, salty ice that rose to the ~160 K surface and quick-froze like Smucker\u2019s\u00ae Magic Shell. Finding such a dramatic cryovolcanic process this close to the sun \u2013 in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ice Volcano on Ceres<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,50,74,3,57,13,207],"tags":[1148,1116,1143,1146,1147,1144,80,79,58,1145,83,130],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-geoscience","category-physics","category-science","category-space","category-technology","category-weird","tag-ahuna-mons","tag-asteroid","tag-ceres","tag-cryovolcanism","tag-dawn","tag-dwarf-planet","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-nasa","tag-planets","tag-protoplanet","tag-remote-sensing","tag-robotics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}