{"id":574180,"date":"2019-01-31T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f641ce9b64bdd66b14257143c1ec5d2f"},"modified":"2019-01-31T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:22:00","slug":"exploring-the-mysterious-origins-of-mars-3-mile-high-sand-pile-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=574180","title":{"rendered":"Exploring The Mysterious Origins Of Mars&#8217; 3-Mile-High Sand Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/01\/31\/21472_pia22207_1280_wide-238ecf02501e7e72135151a1804fa78642f2c7a0.jpg?s=600' alt='NASA's rover Curiosity crawls up the side of Vera Rubin Ridge on Mars' surface in January 2018. Mount Sharp \u2014 a 3-mile-high mountain \u2014 can be seen in the distance.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Space scientists on Earth have improvised a tool on the Mars rover to help them figure out how a giant mountain on the Red Planet came to be. Their surprising conclusion: It&#8217;s likely windswept sand.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: MSSS\/ NASA\/JPL-Caltech)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=690126426' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space scientists on Earth have improvised a tool on the Mars rover to help them figure out how a giant mountain on the Red Planet came to be. Their surprising conclusion: It&#8217;s likely windswept sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574180","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574181,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574180\/revisions\/574181"}],"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=574180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}