{"id":641355,"date":"2019-12-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641355"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:00:00","slug":"receding-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641355","title":{"rendered":"Receding ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Receding_ice_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ice capping the northern hemisphere terrain of Mars slowly recedes as summer progresses, revealing the underlying surface.<\/p>\n<p>This scene was captured by the CaSSIS camera onboard ESA\u2019s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter as it flew over the ice-coated Korolev crater on 1 November 2019. Korolev crater is an 80 km-wide crater in the northern latitudes of Mars that contains a massive ice sheet in its centre \u2013 this image focuses on one of the crater walls.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, it was mid-summer in the northern hemisphere of Mars: the carbon dioxide ice cover had retreated, revealing the permanent water ice deposits much more clearly, along with details of <a href=\"\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2019\/12\/Ice-coated_crater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">surfaces previously covered in ice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The image is centred at 164.90\u00baE\/72.02\u00baN and was taken on 1 November 2019. The scale is indicated on the image.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2019\/12\/Receding_ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Receding ice<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice capping the northern hemisphere terrain of Mars slowly recedes as summer progresses, revealing the underlying surface. This scene was captured by the CaSSIS camera onboard ESA\u2019s ExoMars Trace Gas&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641356,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641355","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/641356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}