{"id":781,"date":"2008-06-25T07:36:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T11:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2008-06-23T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T14:46:00","slug":"martian-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Martian Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/marscloud.jpg\" alt=\"Martian Cloud\" title=\"Martian Cloud\" width=\"500\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere of Mars is hundreds of times thinner than Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, but it can support <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.space.gc.ca\/asc\/eng\/exploration\/phoenix_weather1.asp\">dust devils, wind storms, and clouds<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>The current six live probes are sending back thousands of images of the surface, but there are only a few showing atmospheric phenomena.  Boston.com has a collection of some of the best images, including some cool animations created by stringing together several still photos.  Watching a Martian dust devil scoot in front of the camera is oddly satisfying.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/06\/martian_skies.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/presurfer.blogspot.com\/\">The Presurfer<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The atmosphere of Mars is hundreds of times thinner than Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, but it can support dust devils, wind storms, and clouds. The current six live probes are sending back thousands of images of the surface, but there are only a few showing atmospheric phenomena. Boston.com has a collection of some of the best images, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}