{"id":729061,"date":"2022-07-07T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729061"},"modified":"2022-07-07T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:31:03","slug":"nasa-helps-decipher-how-some-distant-planets-have-clouds-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=729061","title":{"rendered":"NASA helps decipher how some distant planets have clouds of sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but beyond our planet they come in many chemical varieties. The top of Jupiter&#8217;s atmosphere, for example, is blanketed in yellow-hued clouds made of ammonia and ammonium hydrosulfide. And on worlds outside our solar system, there are clouds composed of silicates, the family of rock-forming minerals that make up over 90% of Earth&#8217;s crust. But researchers haven&#8217;t been able to observe the conditions under which these clouds of small dust grains form.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-07-nasa-decipher-distant-planets-clouds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA helps decipher how some distant planets have clouds of sand<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but beyond our planet they come in many chemical varieties. The top of Jupiter&#8217;s atmosphere, for example, is blanketed in yellow-hued clouds&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-729061","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\/729061","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=729061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729061\/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=729061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}