{"id":231437,"date":"2015-07-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"77a32f03b0ab0a95fa179b7c98955e33"},"modified":"2015-07-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:00:00","slug":"maat-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=231437","title":{"rendered":"Ma\u2019at close-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/07\/ma_at_close-up\/15519387-1-eng-GB\/Ma_at_close-up_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nClose-up view of surface textures in the Ma\u2019at region, close to the boundary with Maftet, on the small lobe of Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko. In this boundary region the dust that dominates Ma\u2019at seems to thin out towards Maftet, revealing rougher terrain below. In the section shown here the dust shows a pitted texture, which may suggest an ice-rich material that may be undergoing desiccation through sublimation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image is a crop from an image taken with the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 19 October 2014 from a distance of 8 km from the comet\u2019s surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor context and more information, see the blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2015\/07\/15\/getting-to-know-rosettas-comet-boundary-conditions\"><i>Getting to know Rosetta\u2019s comet: boundary conditions<\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/07\/ma_at_close-up\/15519387-1-eng-GB\/Ma_at_close-up_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nClose-up view of surface textures in the Ma\u2019at region, close to the boundary with Maftet, on the small lobe of Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko. In this boundary region the dust that dominates Ma\u2019at seems to thin out towards Maftet, revealing rougher terrain below. In the section shown here the dust shows a pitted texture, which may suggest an ice-rich material that may be undergoing desiccation through sublimation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image is a crop from an image taken with the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 19 October 2014 from a distance of 8 km from the comet\u2019s surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor context and more information, see the blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/rosetta\/2015\/07\/15\/getting-to-know-rosettas-comet-boundary-conditions\"><i>Getting to know Rosetta\u2019s comet: boundary conditions<\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231437","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}