{"id":772600,"date":"2023-11-12T16:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T20:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=772600"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T20:49:53","slug":"ice-spewing-supervolcano-may-have-been-found-on-pluto-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=772600","title":{"rendered":"Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A photo of Pluto taken by NASA\u2019s New Horizons mission<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A supervolcano on Pluto as large as the one in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, may have erupted and spewed ice over the dwarf planet\u2019s surface just a few million years ago, according to an analysis of a crater found by NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Ice volcanoes on Pluto were first identified in images taken by New Horizons when it reached the object in 2015. Scientists think these volcanoes eject lumps of frozen water, instead of pumping out lava \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2399530-ice-spewing-supervolcano-may-have-been-found-on-pluto\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo of Pluto taken by NASA\u2019s New Horizons mission NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute A supervolcano on Pluto as large as the one in Yellowstone National&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772600","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\/772600","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=772600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/772601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}