{"id":746948,"date":"2023-01-31T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746948"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T16:35:17","slug":"investigations-reveal-more-evidence-that-mimas-is-a-stealth-ocean-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=746948","title":{"rendered":"Investigations reveal more evidence that Mimas is a stealth ocean world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a Southwest Research Institute scientist discovered surprising evidence that Saturn&#8217;s smallest, innermost moon could generate the right amount of heat to support a liquid internal ocean, colleagues began studying Mimas&#8217; surface to understand how its interior may have evolved. Numerical simulations of the moon&#8217;s Herschel impact basin, the most striking feature on its heavily cratered surface, determined that the basin&#8217;s structure and the lack of tectonics on Mimas are compatible with a thinning ice shell and geologically young ocean.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-01-reveal-evidence-mimas-stealth-ocean.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Investigations reveal more evidence that Mimas is a stealth ocean world<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a Southwest Research Institute scientist discovered surprising evidence that Saturn&#8217;s smallest, innermost moon could generate the right amount of heat to support a liquid internal ocean, colleagues began studying&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-746948","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\/746948","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=746948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746948\/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=746948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}