{"id":683438,"date":"2021-03-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=683438"},"modified":"2021-03-09T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T09:00:00","slug":"mars-express-unlocks-the-secrets-of-curious-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=683438","title":{"rendered":"Mars Express unlocks the secrets of curious cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Return_of_the_extremely_elongated_cloud_on_Mars_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Return of the extremely elongated cloud on Mars\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When spring arrives in southern Mars, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\/Mars_Express_keeps_an_eye_on_curious_cloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">cloud of water ice<\/a> emerges near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2018\/10\/Elongated_cloud_on_Mars_annotated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the 20-kilometre-tall Arsia Mons volcano<\/a>, rapidly stretching out for many hundreds of kilometres before fading away in mere hours. A detailed long-term study now reveals the secrets of this elongated cloud, using exciting new observations from the \u2018Mars Webcam\u2019 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA\u2019s Mars Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\/Mars_Express_unlocks_the_secrets_of_curious_cloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mars Express unlocks the secrets of curious cloud<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When spring arrives in southern Mars, a cloud of water ice emerges near the 20-kilometre-tall Arsia Mons volcano, rapidly stretching out for many hundreds of kilometres before fading away in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":683439,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683438","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=683438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/683439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}