{"id":138974,"date":"2022-05-05T19:02:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/mars-scientists-discover-a-puzzling-impact-crater-on-the-red-planet"},"modified":"2022-05-05T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T00:02:17","slug":"mars-scientists-discover-a-puzzling-impact-crater-on-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/mars-scientists-discover-a-puzzling-impact-crater-on-the-red-planet","title":{"rendered":"Mars scientists discover a puzzling impact crater on the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-scientists-discover-a-puzzling-impact-crater-on-the-red-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most craters are circular in shape due to material ejecting out in all directions as a result of an impact. Below is a group of impact craters in Noachis Terra, a large region in Mars\u2019 southern hemisphere. These are all classified as simple craters, which are small bowl-shaped, smooth-walled craters.<\/p>\n<p>Complex craters, on the other hand, are large craters with complicated features, such as terraces, central peaks, and rims and walls their own features. Oblong craters, like the one in the lead image \u2014 which is also located in Noachis Terra \u2014 can sometimes be created by impacts striking the surface at a very low grazing angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most craters are circular in shape due to material ejecting out in all directions as a result of an impact. Below is a group of impact craters in Noachis Terra, a large region in Mars\u2019 southern hemisphere. These are all classified as simple craters, which are small bowl-shaped, smooth-walled craters. Complex craters, on the other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138974","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}