{"id":275881,"date":"2017-02-16T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b8b7746d7d8720ba8a714a58f3b28a8e"},"modified":"2017-02-16T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:00:06","slug":"dawn-discovers-evidence-for-organic-material-on-ceres-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=275881","title":{"rendered":"Dawn discovers evidence for organic material on Ceres (Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Dawn mission has found evidence for organic material on Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists using the spacecraft&#8217;s visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) detected the material in and around a northern-hemisphere crater called Ernutet. Organic molecules are interesting to scientists because they are necessary, though not sufficient, components of life on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Dawn mission has found evidence for organic material on Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists using the spacecraft&#8217;s visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) detected the&#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-275881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275881","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=275881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275882,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275881\/revisions\/275882"}],"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=275881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}