{"id":17488,"date":"2015-09-19T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T22:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/something-bizarre-is-happening-on-the-surface-of-rosettas-comet"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:39:21","slug":"something-bizarre-is-happening-on-the-surface-of-rosettas-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/something-bizarre-is-happening-on-the-surface-of-rosettas-comet","title":{"rendered":"Something Bizarre Is Happening On the Surface of Rosetta\u2019s Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/something-bizarre-is-happening-on-the-surface-of-rosettas-comet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They may not look like it, but each of these photos from Rosetta is of the same site on Comet 67P\/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko, within just six short weeks. Something big is happening up there\u2014but what is it?<\/p>\n<p>This particular comet site has been steadily monitored by the ESA since August of 2014, and nothing has been happening. Literally. Viewed in detail of up to 1\/10 of a meter, the site had stayed exactly the same. Until late May, when suddenly everything started changing again and again and again.<\/p>\n<p>Some land features disappeared, others were added. Some were temporary, some stayed. What\u2019s happening there and why? Scientists still aren\u2019t sure, but they\u2019ve come up with a few theories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/something-bizarre-is-happening-on-the-surface-of-rosett-1731711875\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They may not look like it, but each of these photos from Rosetta is of the same site on Comet 67P\/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko, within just six short weeks. Something big is happening up there\u2014but what is it? This particular comet site has been steadily monitored by the ESA since August of 2014, and nothing has been [\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-17488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488","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=17488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64170,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions\/64170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}