{"id":774384,"date":"2023-11-23T06:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=774384"},"modified":"2023-11-23T06:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T11:01:56","slug":"mercury-has-salt-glaciers-that-could-provide-the-conditions-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=774384","title":{"rendered":"Mercury has salt glaciers that could provide the conditions for life"},"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\">Geological formations called hollows on Mercury taken by NASA\u2019s orbital Messenger spacecraft<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/JHU APL\/CIW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mercury might have salt glaciers that could create the conditions necessary for life kilometres underground. These rock salts may encircle the entire planet, and could transform our image of Mercury as a barren wasteland.<\/p>\n<p>In space, easy-to-vaporise compounds such as water and salts are called volatiles. Historically, scientists have believed that Mercury largely lacked volatiles because of the extreme temperatures that result from its proximity to the sun and lack of atmosphere. However, in recent decades, they have discovered\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2403932-mercury-has-salt-glaciers-that-could-provide-the-conditions-for-life\/?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>Geological formations called hollows on Mercury taken by NASA\u2019s orbital Messenger spacecraft NASA\/JHU APL\/CIW Mercury might have salt glaciers that could create the conditions necessary for life kilometres underground. These&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774384","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\/774384","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=774384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/774385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}