{"id":153527,"date":"2022-12-24T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasa-discovers-pair-of-super-earths-with-1000-mile-deep-oceans"},"modified":"2022-12-24T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:23:14","slug":"nasa-discovers-pair-of-super-earths-with-1000-mile-deep-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasa-discovers-pair-of-super-earths-with-1000-mile-deep-oceans","title":{"rendered":"NASA Discovers Pair of Super-Earths With 1,000-Mile-Deep Oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xwKrjiuEKS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film \u201cWaterworld\u201d Earth\u2019s polar ice caps have completely melted, and the sea level has risen to over 5 miles, covering nearly all of the land. Astronomers have uncovered a pair of planets that are true \u201cwater worlds,\u201d unlike any planet found in our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly larger than Earth, they don\u2019t have the density of rock. And yet, they are denser than the gas-giant outer planets orbiting our Sun. So, what are they made of? The best answer is that these exoplanets have global oceans at least 500 times deeper than the average depth of Earth\u2019s oceans, which simply are a wet veneer on a rocky ball.<\/p>\n<p>The soggy worlds orbit the red dwarf star Kepler-138, located 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. The planets were found in 2014 with NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film \u201cWaterworld\u201d Earth\u2019s polar ice caps have completely melted, and the sea level has risen to over 5 miles, covering nearly all of the land. Astronomers have uncovered a pair of planets that are true \u201cwater worlds,\u201d unlike any planet found in our solar system. Slightly larger than Earth, they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153527","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}