{"id":1084,"date":"2017-01-10T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:21:31","slug":"a-grand-discovery-dwarf-planet-ceres-is-well-stocked-with-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"A GRaND Discovery: Dwarf Planet Ceres is Well-Stocked With Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/419348\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/images\/largesize\/PIA19320_hires.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/UCLA\/MPS\/DLR\/IDA\/PS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After 4 billion years, the dwarf planet Ceres is still carrying a surprising amount of water weight \u2014 as much as 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The finding, which was published in the Jan. 6 edition of the journal <em>Science<\/em>, is consistent with earlier models, and provides valuable clues to how Ceres formed.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/419348\" target=\"_blank\">Dwarf Planet Ceres Up To 30 Percent Water<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 4 billion years, the dwarf planet Ceres is still carrying a surprising amount of water weight \u2014 as much as 30 percent. The finding, which was published in the Jan. 6 edition of the journal Science, is consistent with earlier models, and provides valuable clues to how Ceres formed. Read\/listen to my full story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A GRaND Discovery: Dwarf Planet Ceres is Well-Stocked With Water<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,60,121,74,3,57,13],"tags":[1116,1147,80,263,79,58,83,130,51],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-chemistry","category-imaging","category-physics","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-asteroid","tag-dawn","tag-fluid-dynamics","tag-gravity","tag-nasa","tag-planets","tag-remote-sensing","tag-robotics","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","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=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}