{"id":9541,"date":"2014-12-23T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-12-23T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:48:28","slug":"today-in-space-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=9541","title":{"rendered":"Today in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/thumbnails\/image\/esp_039114_1115.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater.<br \/>\nAt this time of year, only south-facing slopes retain the frost, while the north-facing slopes have melted. Gullies are not the only active geologic process going on here. A small crater is visible at the bottom of the slope.<br \/>\nThe image was acquired on Nov. 30, 2014, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, one of six instruments on NASA&#8217;s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace &#038; Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate, Washington.<br \/>\n> More information and image products<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona<br \/>\nCaption: Livio Tornabene, Ryan Hopkins, Kayle Hansen and Eric Pilles via NASA http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/frosty-slopes-on-mars<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image of an area on the surface of Mars, approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers in size, shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater. At this time of year, only south-facing slopes retain the frost, while the north-facing slopes have melted. Gullies are not the only active geologic process going on here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13,39],"class_list":["post-9541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}