{"id":114031,"date":"2020-10-08T04:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/episode-19-cracking-the-code-on-mercury-our-solar-systems-innermost-mystery"},"modified":"2020-10-08T04:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:22:58","slug":"episode-19-cracking-the-code-on-mercury-our-solar-systems-innermost-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/episode-19-cracking-the-code-on-mercury-our-solar-systems-innermost-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Episode 19 \u2014 Cracking The Code On Mercury, Our Solar System\u2019s Innermost Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/yqe6q-eeb006?mix=1&vjs=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Great new podcast episode on our strange planet Mercury with planetary geophysicist Catherine Johnson, who eloquently explains what\u2019s known about our tiny, innermost planet\u2019s many remaining mysteries. Please have a listen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Guest Catherine Johnson, a planetary geophysicist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, discusses this bizarre little world; the innermost planet in our solar system. A planet that\u2019s so close to our Sun that its surface temperatures can hit 800 F. But surprisingly, its poles harbor enough water ice to completely bury a major metropolis. Some have even argued that Mercury may have once been habitable. Where it formed still remains a mystery, but it does have a tiny magnetic field, a very oversized iron core, and one of the largest impact basins in the solar system. A European mission is currently en route to orbit the planet in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great new podcast episode on our strange planet Mercury with planetary geophysicist Catherine Johnson, who eloquently explains what\u2019s known about our tiny, innermost planet\u2019s many remaining mysteries. Please have a listen. Guest Catherine Johnson, a planetary geophysicist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, discusses this bizarre little world; the innermost planet in our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}