{"id":127944,"date":"2021-09-22T01:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-intrigued-by-strange-blobs-on-uranus"},"modified":"2021-09-22T01:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:22:49","slug":"scientists-intrigued-by-strange-blobs-on-uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-intrigued-by-strange-blobs-on-uranus","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Intrigued by Strange Blobs on Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-intrigued-by-strange-blobs-on-uranus3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers believe that mushy blobs on Uranus are hiding lots of gas.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, scientists have discovered that \u201cmushballs,\u201d large slushy hailstones made of ammonia and water, might be causing an odd atmospheric phenomenon on Uranus, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-mushballs-stash-ammonia-uranus-neptune.html\" class=\"\"> press release<\/a> about the research. The mushballs, which are also present on Neptune, might be carrying ammonia into the two planets\u2019 atmosphere and hiding the gas from detection.<\/p>\n<p>The balls might actually be the secret behind why scientists can\u2019t detect ammonia in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune \u2014 which is odd because it\u2019s abundant with other gasses like methane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers believe that mushy blobs on Uranus are hiding lots of gas. More specifically, scientists have discovered that \u201cmushballs,\u201d large slushy hailstones made of ammonia and water, might be causing an odd atmospheric phenomenon on Uranus, according to a press release about the research. The mushballs, which are also present on Neptune, might be carrying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127944","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}