{"id":18892,"date":"2015-10-29T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/rosetta-mission-comet-67p-is-surrounded"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:28","slug":"rosetta-mission-comet-67p-is-surrounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/rosetta-mission-comet-67p-is-surrounded","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta mission: Comet 67P is surrounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rosetta-mission-comet-67p-is-surrounded.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The air around the comet that Rosetta landed on has plenty of oxygen, scientists say, potentially changing our understanding of the beginnings of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>In current theories, oxygen shouldn\u2019t be able to exist in high quantities, and should instead have combined with hydrogen and formed water. But oxygen is the fourth most common gas around the comet.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kathrin Altwegg, project leader for Rosetta\u2019s Rosina mass spectrometer instrument, said: \u201cWe had never thought that oxygen could \u2018survive\u2019 for billions of years without combining with other substances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/rosetta-mission-comet-67p-is-surrounded-by-huge-amounts-of-oxygen-scientists-say-potentially-a6713341.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air around the comet that Rosetta landed on has plenty of oxygen, scientists say, potentially changing our understanding of the beginnings of the solar system. In current theories, oxygen shouldn\u2019t be able to exist in high quantities, and should instead have combined with hydrogen and formed water. But oxygen is the fourth most common [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892","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\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69285,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions\/69285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}