{"id":15309,"date":"2015-07-08T03:46:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/plutos-odd-dark-spots-continue-to-puzzle-scientists-photos"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:26:55","slug":"plutos-odd-dark-spots-continue-to-puzzle-scientists-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/plutos-odd-dark-spots-continue-to-puzzle-scientists-photos","title":{"rendered":"Pluto\u2019s Odd Dark Spots Continue to Puzzle Scientists (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plutos-odd-dark-spots-continue-to-puzzle-scientists-photos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The images reveal a great deal of variation and complexity across Pluto\u2019s surface \u2014 including the four large dark patches near the equator first spotted by New Horizons late last month. \u201cThis object is unlike any other that we have observed,\u201d New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said during a news briefing today (July 6). New Horizons captured the new photos last Wednesday (July 1) and Friday (July 3), shortly before suffering a glitch that sent it into a precautionary \u201csafe mode\u201d on Saturday (July 4).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/plutos-odd-dark-spots-continue-puzzle-scientists-photos-215932895.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The images reveal a great deal of variation and complexity across Pluto\u2019s surface \u2014 including the four large dark patches near the equator first spotted by New Horizons late last month. \u201cThis object is unlike any other that we have observed,\u201d New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69872,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions\/69872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}