{"id":8972,"date":"2018-01-10T03:13:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2018-01-23T03:16:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T10:16:41","slug":"mars-is-where-we-were-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/10\/mars-is-where-we-were-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Is Where We Were At"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/deep-buried-glaciers-spotted-mars-191235295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from AFP via Yahoo!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Deep, buried glaciers spotted on Mars<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/DDgJhJ6BJu1b2tuVs_Jl5w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAwO2lsPXBsYW5l\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/afp.com\/9bcd535a8f6da55e432e6a9ad08df2d662a58818.jpg\" alt=\"By the 2030s, NASA hopes to send human explorers to Mars, the surface of which is seen in a May 2017 handout photo covered in carbon dioxide snow and ice, different from the buried glaciers researchers have spotted\" width=\"480\" \/><em>By the 2030s, NASA hopes to send human explorers to Mars, the surface of which is seen in a May 2017 handout photo covered in carbon dioxide snow and ice, different from the buried glaciers researchers have spotted (AFP Photo\/HO)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Miami (AFP) &#8211; Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Although ice has long been known to exist on Mars, a better understanding of its depth and location could be vital to future human explorers, said the report in the US journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>Erosion has exposed eight ice sites, some as shallow as a few feet (one meter) below the surface, and going as deep as 100 meters or more, it said.<\/p>\n<p>These underground cliffs appear &#8220;to be nearly pure ice,&#8221; said the report, which is based on data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This kind of ice is more widespread than previously thought,&#8221; said Colin Dundas, a geologist at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/deep-buried-glaciers-spotted-mars-191235295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Yahoo!<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AFP via Yahoo! Deep, buried glaciers spotted on Mars By the 2030s, NASA hopes to send human explorers to Mars, the surface of which is seen in a May 2017 handout photo covered in carbon dioxide snow and ice, different from the buried glaciers researchers have spotted (AFP Photo\/HO) Miami (AFP) &#8211; Buried glaciers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}