{"id":289793,"date":"2017-03-20T05:50:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T09:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20170002313"},"modified":"2017-03-20T05:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T09:50:24","slug":"thermal-properties-of-rheas-poles-evidence-for-a-meter-deep-unconsolidated-subsurface-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=289793","title":{"rendered":"Thermal properties of Rhea&#8217;s Poles: Evidence for a Meter-Deep Unconsolidated Subsurface Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Cassini&#8217;s Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) observed both of Rhea&#8217;s polar regions during a close (2000 km) flyby on 9th March 2013 during orbit 183. Rhea&#8217;s southern pole was again observed during a more distant (51,000 km) flyby on 10th February 2015 during orbit 212. The results show Rhea&#8217;s southern winter pole is one of the coldest places directly observed in our Solar System: surface temperatures of 25.4 +\/-7.4 K and 24.7 +\/-6.8 K are inferred from orbit 183 and 212 data, respectively&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Cassini&#8217;s Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) observed both of Rhea&#8217;s polar regions during a close (2000 km) flyby on 9th March 2013 during orbit 183. Rhea&#8217;s southern pole was again observed during a more distant (51,000 km) flyby on 10th &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289793","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289794,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289793\/revisions\/289794"}],"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=289793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}