{"id":16981,"date":"2015-09-19T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2015-09-19T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:35:01","slug":"the-icy-plains-of-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16981","title":{"rendered":"The Icy Plains of Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16363\">New Horizons data trickles back<\/a> to Earth we are being treated to ever better images of this distant dwarf planet.  Soaring mountains, glaciers of nitrogen ice flowing into ice caps that cover huge areas, a hazy and layered atmosphere, Pluto has turned out to be a surprise to just about every one.  Those who expected an ancient cratered terrain have been presented with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama\" target=\"_blank\">surprisingly dynamic world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image for more information, click again for the big version to really appreciate&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16982\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=16982\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16982\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/NewHorizonsPlutoWide-600x256.png\" alt=\"New Horizons Pluto\" width=\"600\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/NewHorizonsPlutoWide-600x256.png 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/NewHorizonsPlutoWide-1200x512.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pluto\u2019s Majestic Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy Hazes: Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015.  Credits: NASA\/JHUAPL\/SwRI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the New Horizons data trickles back to Earth we are being treated to ever better images of this distant dwarf planet. Soaring mountains, glaciers of nitrogen ice flowing into ice caps that cover huge areas, a hazy and layered atmosphere, Pluto has turned out to be a surprise to just about every one. Those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=16981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Icy Plains of Pluto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[809,2065,2064,1978],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16987,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions\/16987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}