{"id":460083,"date":"2018-04-05T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cda150052db319d12e77ebdb1ca96b72"},"modified":"2018-04-05T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T20:32:06","slug":"nasa-scientist-collects-bits-of-the-solar-system-from-an-antarctic-glacier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=460083","title":{"rendered":"NASA scientist collects bits of the solar system from an Antarctic glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On rare calm days, the most striking thing you notice at an altitude of more than 8,000 feet on an Antarctic glacier is the silence. &#8220;There was just no sound; no air handling equipment, no leaves rustling, no bugs, no planes or cars. So quiet you just heard your heartbeat,&#8221; said Barbara Cohen, planetary scientist at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Most of the time, however, there is a steady howl of bitter cold wind flowing down from the East Antarctic ice plateau. With a summer temperature hovering around zero Fahrenheit, &#8220;It&#8217;s the wind that makes you cold,&#8221; Cohen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On rare calm days, the most striking thing you notice at an altitude of more than 8,000 feet on an Antarctic glacier is the silence. &#8220;There was just no sound; no air handling equipment, no leaves rustling, no bugs, no planes or cars. So quiet you just &#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-460083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460083","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=460083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460084,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460083\/revisions\/460084"}],"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=460083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}