{"id":773240,"date":"2023-11-14T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773240"},"modified":"2023-11-14T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:37:51","slug":"eris-and-makemake-might-be-hiding-unexpected-oceans-of-liquid-water-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=773240","title":{"rendered":"Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected oceans of liquid water"},"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\">An artist\u2019s illustration of Makemake<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA, ESA, and A. Parker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Icy rocks in the outer solar system might have unexpected subsurface oceans. Eris and Makemake are both dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt \u2013 the ring of frozen objects that encircles our solar system beyond Neptune\u2019s orbit \u2013 and new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) hint that these small worlds could have unexpected activity beneath their surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Kuiper belt objects, or KBOs, are generally thought of as similar to large, inactive comets, preserving pristine ices that formed in the early solar system. But Christopher \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2392713-eris-and-makemake-might-be-hiding-unexpected-oceans-of-liquid-water\/?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>An artist\u2019s illustration of Makemake NASA, ESA, and A. Parker Icy rocks in the outer solar system might have unexpected subsurface oceans. Eris and Makemake are both dwarf planets in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773240","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\/773240","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=773240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}