{"id":465540,"date":"2018-04-20T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1dad962903c43fe5c1536bb7aefc2215"},"modified":"2018-04-20T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:50:02","slug":"mysterious-red-spots-on-mercury-get-names-but-what-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=465540","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious red spots on Mercury get names \u2013 but what are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, but far from being a dull cinder of a world, it has instead turned out to be a real eye opener for geologists. Among the revelations by NASA&#8217;s MESSENGER probe, which first flew past Mercury in 2008 and orbited it between 2011 and 2015, is the discovery of a hundred or so bright red spots scattered across the globe. Now they are at last being named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, but far from being a dull cinder of a world, it has instead turned out to be a real eye opener for geologists. Among the revelations by NASA&#8217;s MESSENGER probe, which first flew past Mercury in 2008 and orbited &#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-465540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465540","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=465540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465541,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465540\/revisions\/465541"}],"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=465540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}