{"id":11047,"date":"2017-10-05T04:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=11047"},"modified":"2017-10-05T04:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:56:42","slug":"pluto-s-bladed-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=11047","title":{"rendered":"Pluto s Bladed Terrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1710\/pluto_02NH600.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Imaged during the New Horizons spacecraft flyby in July 2015, Pluto&#8217;s bladed terrain is captured in this close-up of the distant world. The bizarre texture belongs to fields of skyscraper-sized, jagged landforms made almost entirely of methane ice, found at extreme altitudes near Pluto&#8217;s equator. Casting dramatic shadows, the tall, knife-like ridges seem to have been formed by sublimation. By that process, condensed methane ice turns directly to methane gas without passing through a liquid phase during Pluto&#8217;s warmer geological periods. On planet Earth, sublimation can also produce standing fields of knife-like ice sheets, found along the high plateau of the Andes mountain range. Known as penitentes, those bladed structures are made of water ice and at most a few meters tall. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2xSJsk1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imaged during the New Horizons spacecraft flyby in July 2015, Pluto&#8217;s bladed terrain is captured in this close-up of the distant world. The bizarre texture belongs to fields of skyscraper-sized, <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=11047\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-11047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11048,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047\/revisions\/11048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}