{"id":662464,"date":"2020-07-30T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662464"},"modified":"2020-07-30T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T10:00:11","slug":"extreme-heat-from-the-sun-is-baking-a-thin-crust-on-mercurys-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662464","title":{"rendered":"Extreme heat from the sun is baking a thin crust on Mercury\u2019s surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury&#8217;s surface should be powdery like Earth&#8217;s moon, but the extreme heat it experiences from being close to the sun may be baking it into a thin, hard crust&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2250075-extreme-heat-from-the-sun-is-baking-a-thin-crust-on-mercurys-surface\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Extreme heat from the sun is baking a thin crust on Mercury\u2019s surface<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: New Scientist &#8211; Space&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury&#8217;s surface should be powdery like Earth&#8217;s moon, but the extreme heat it experiences from being close to the sun may be baking it into a thin, hard crust&#013; &#013;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662464","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=662464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662464\/revisions"}],"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=662464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}