{"id":1486,"date":"2018-06-01T16:02:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T21:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2018-07-02T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T21:13:54","slug":"on-rarefied-pluto-dunes-arise-from-methane-puffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1486","title":{"rendered":"On Rarefied Pluto, Dunes Arise from Methane Puffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/content\/645077\/scientists-discover-methane-dunes-pluto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kjzz.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field\/image\/171537_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos courtesy NASA\/ Johns Hopkins University \/ Southwest Research Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scientists analyzing Pluto data from the New Horizons spacecraft believe they have, for the first time, found dunes made of frozen methane.<\/p>\n<p>On a planet with atmospheric pressure 100,000 times lower than Earth&#8217;s, the phenomenon is as remarkable as its explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/content\/645077\/scientists-discover-methane-dunes-pluto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists Discover Methane Dunes on Pluto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists analyzing Pluto data from the New Horizons spacecraft believe they have, for the first time, found dunes made of frozen methane. On a planet with atmospheric pressure 100,000 times lower than Earth&#8217;s, the phenomenon is as remarkable as its explanation. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk: Scientists Discover Methane Dunes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Rarefied Pluto, Dunes Arise from Methane Puffs<\/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":[56,185,121,74,3,57,13],"tags":[1451,1453,1450,1452,1449,1454,1455],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-imaging","category-physics","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-dunes","tag-methane","tag-new-horizons","tag-nitrogen","tag-pluto","tag-sputnik-planitia","tag-tombaugh-regio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","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=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}