{"id":249837,"date":"2016-12-12T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9196427b1b9674251214424741297de4"},"modified":"2016-12-12T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:00:03","slug":"mysterious-crater-on-antarctica-indication-of-vulnerable-ice-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=249837","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious &#8216;crater&#8217; on Antarctica indication of vulnerable ice sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The East Antarctic ice sheet appears to be more vulnerable than expected, due to a strong wind that brings warm air and blows away the snow. That is the conclusion reached by a team of climate researchers led by Jan Lenaerts (Utrecht University\/KU Leuven) and Stef Lhermitte (TU Delft\/KU Leuven), based on a combination of climate models, satellite observations and on-site measurements. Their conclusions will be published in Nature Climate Change on 12 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East Antarctic ice sheet appears to be more vulnerable than expected, due to a strong wind that brings warm air and blows away the snow. That is the conclusion reached by a team of climate researchers led by Jan Lenaerts (Utrecht University\/KU Leuv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249838,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837\/revisions\/249838"}],"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=249837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}