{"id":166189,"date":"2012-11-30T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.canada.com:content=7633840"},"modified":"2012-11-30T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T16:35:53","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-confirms-ice-at-shadowy-north-pole-of-mercury-closest-planet-to-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=166189","title":{"rendered":"NASA spacecraft confirms ice at shadowy north pole of Mercury, closest planet to sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Marcia Dunn CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; Just in time for Christmas, scientists have confirmed a vast amount of ice at the north pole &#8212; on Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. The findings are from NASA&#8217;s Mercury-orbiting probe, Messenger, and the subject of three scientific papers released Thursday by the journal Science. The[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Marcia Dunn CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; Just in time for Christmas, scientists have confirmed a vast amount of ice at the north pole &#8212; on Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. The findings are from NASA&#8217;s Mercury-orbiting probe, Messenger, and the subject of three scientific papers released Thursday by the journal Science. The[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":612595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-CSA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}