{"id":16674,"date":"2015-08-25T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T19:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/ceres-four-mile-tall-pyramid-is-closer-than-ever-still-puzzling"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:50","slug":"ceres-four-mile-tall-pyramid-is-closer-than-ever-still-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/ceres-four-mile-tall-pyramid-is-closer-than-ever-still-puzzling","title":{"rendered":"Ceres\u2019 Four-Mile Tall \u2018Pyramid\u2019 Is Closer Than Ever, Still Puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ceres-four-mile-tall-pyramid-is-closer-than-ever-still-puzzling.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The closer we get to Ceres, the largest object in our solar system\u2019s asteroid belt, the stranger it becomes.<\/p>\n<p>In June, NASA released a photo of Ceres, taken by the Dawn spacecraft from 2,700 miles away, that showed a several-mile high \u201cpyramid\u201d protruding from the dwarf planet\u2019s otherwise generally smooth surface. And a new photo, taken last Wednesday from only 900 miles away, shows the mountain is four miles high and has a perimeter of previously unseen, reflective streaked slopes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/ceres-pyramid-nasa-photo_55dc838fe4b0a40aa3ac2dfa?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592&kvcommref=mostpopular\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closer we get to Ceres, the largest object in our solar system\u2019s asteroid belt, the stranger it becomes. In June, NASA released a photo of Ceres, taken by the Dawn spacecraft from 2,700 miles away, that showed a several-mile high \u201cpyramid\u201d protruding from the dwarf planet\u2019s otherwise generally smooth surface. And a new photo, [\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-16674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","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=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69673,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions\/69673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}