{"id":669183,"date":"2020-10-07T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=669183"},"modified":"2020-10-07T08:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:52:30","slug":"the-colorful-walls-of-an-exposed-impact-crater-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=669183","title":{"rendered":"The colorful walls of an exposed impact crater on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impact craters have been called the &#8220;poor geologists&#8217; drill,&#8221; since they allow scientists to look beneath to the subsurface of a planet without actually digging down. It&#8217;s estimated that Mars has over 600,000 craters, so there&#8217;s plenty of opportunity to peer into the red planet&#8217;s strata\u2014especially with the incredible HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting and studying Mars from above since 2006.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-walls-exposed-impact-crater-mars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The colorful walls of an exposed impact crater on Mars<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact craters have been called the &#8220;poor geologists&#8217; drill,&#8221; since they allow scientists to look beneath to the subsurface of a planet without actually digging down. It&#8217;s estimated that Mars&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669183","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=669183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669183\/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=669183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}