{"id":776964,"date":"2024-02-12T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776964"},"modified":"2024-02-12T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T14:36:04","slug":"caves-seen-on-the-surface-of-a-comet-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776964","title":{"rendered":"Caves seen on the surface of a comet for the first time"},"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\">The caves on comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">CNES\/ESA\/Rosetta\/MPS\/OSIRIS\/Philippe Lamy, David Romeuf, Guillaume Faury, Olivier Groussin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>We have spotted caves on a comet for the first time. The caves, identified on comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko \u2013 also known as comet 67P \u2013 are full of ice, which could help explain mysterious jets that astronomers have seen coming from the comet.<\/p>\n<p>While we know roughly what comets are made of \u2013 commonly rock, ice and frozen gases \u2013 we don\u2019t know much about their internal structure. Caves could offer an easy access point for scientists to learn about this interior, but unlike many planets and bodies in\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2412032-caves-seen-on-the-surface-of-a-comet-for-the-first-time\/?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>The caves on comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko CNES\/ESA\/Rosetta\/MPS\/OSIRIS\/Philippe Lamy, David Romeuf, Guillaume Faury, Olivier Groussin We have spotted caves on a comet for the first time. The caves, identified on comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776964","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\/776964","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=776964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/776965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}