{"id":118164,"date":"2021-01-08T01:23:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-propose-permanent-human-habitat-built-orbiting-ceres"},"modified":"2021-01-08T01:23:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T09:23:38","slug":"scientists-propose-permanent-human-habitat-built-orbiting-ceres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-propose-permanent-human-habitat-built-orbiting-ceres","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Propose Permanent Human Habitat Built Orbiting Ceres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-propose-permanent-human-habitat-built-orbiting-ceres.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would you like to live on a space station? \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If that sounds familiar to fans of the popular sci-fi book and TV series \u201cThe Expanse,\u201d that\u2019s because in that fictional universe, Ceres Station plays a pivotal role as one of humanity\u2019s first human off-world colonies. In the series, however, the space rock itself was spun up to create a crewed habitat on its surface with artificial gravity.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2011.07487.pdf\">a paper<\/a> uploaded to the prewrite repository <em>arXiv <\/em>this week, the team argues that Ceres would be prime real estate because it has nitrogen, which could enable the creation of an Earth-like atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they argue that the environment could even be \u201cbetter than Earth,\u201d since there\u2019s no adverse weather or natural disasters, and plenty of living space to grow into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to live on a space station? \ud83d\ude03 If that sounds familiar to fans of the popular sci-fi book and TV series \u201cThe Expanse,\u201d that\u2019s because in that fictional universe, Ceres Station plays a pivotal role as one of humanity\u2019s first human off-world colonies. In the series, however, the space rock itself was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118164","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}