{"id":20255,"date":"2018-07-31T04:56:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=20255"},"modified":"2018-07-31T04:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T04:56:50","slug":"layers-of-the-south-pole-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=20255","title":{"rendered":"Layers of the South Pole of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1807\/SouthPole_MarsExpress_1080.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What lies beneath the layered south pole of Mars? A recent measurement with ground-penetrating radar from ESA&#8217;s Mars Express satellite has detected a bright reflection layer consistent with an underground lake of salty water. The reflection comes from about 1.5-km down but covers an area 200-km across. Liquid water evaporates quickly from the surface of Mars, but a briny confined lake, such as implied by the radar reflection, could last much longer and be a candidate to host life such as microbes. Pictured, an infrared, green, and blue image of the south pole of Mars taken by Mars Express in 2012 shows a complex mixture of layers of dirt, frozen carbon dioxide, and frozen water. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap180731.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What lies beneath the layered south pole of Mars? A recent measurement with ground-penetrating radar from ESA&#8217;s Mars Express satellite has detected a bright reflection layer consistent with an underground <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=20255\" 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-20255","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\/20255","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=20255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20256,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255\/revisions\/20256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}