{"id":348142,"date":"2017-01-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/news\/2017\/01\/fresh-crater-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-01-06T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T12:00:00","slug":"a-chunk-of-interplanetary-debris-recently-slammed-into-mars-and-left-this-fresh-crater-and-spray-of-ejecta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=348142","title":{"rendered":"A chunk of interplanetary debris recently slammed into Mars and left this fresh crater and spray of ejecta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small asteroids and chunks of cometary debris frequently slam into the surface of Mars, gouging out new craters. Thanks to a high resolution camera aboard NASA&rsquo;s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists can often spot such impacts relatively soon after they occur.<\/p>\n<p>The image above, acquired by the orbiter&rsquo;s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment is a compelling example. It shows a crater and blast zone from an impact that likely occurred as recently as this past August, and no lat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small asteroids and chunks of cometary debris frequently slam into the surface of Mars, gouging out new craters. Thanks to a high resolution camera aboard NASA&rsquo;s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists can often spot such impacts relatively soon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-kosmos","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}