{"id":278048,"date":"2017-02-22T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=eb0cac462d62178919bcde27c4b4f280"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:52:17","slug":"surprising-dunes-on-comet-chury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=278048","title":{"rendered":"Surprising dunes on comet Chury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprising images from the Rosetta spacecraft show the presence of dune-like patterns on the surface of comet Chury. Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique et M\u00e9canique des Milieux H\u00e9t\u00e9rog\u00e8nes (CNRS\/ESPCI Paris\/UPMC\/Universit\u00e9 Paris Diderot) studied the available images and modeled the outgassing of vapor to try to explain the phenomenon. They show that the strong pressure difference between the sunlit side of the comet and that in shadow generates winds able to transport grains and form dunes. Their work is published on 21 February 2017 in the journal PNAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprising images from the Rosetta spacecraft show the presence of dune-like patterns on the surface of comet Chury. Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique et M&eacute;canique des Milieux H&eacute;t&eacute;rog&egrave;nes (CNRS\/ESPCI Paris\/UPMC\/Universit&eacute; Paris Diderot) studied the available images and modeled the outgassing of vapor to try to explain the phenomenon. They show that the strong pressure difference between the sunlit side of the comet and that in shadow generates winds able to transport grains and form dunes. Their work is published on 21 February 2017 in the journal PNAS.<\/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-278048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278048","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=278048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278049,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278048\/revisions\/278049"}],"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=278048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}