{"id":19261,"date":"2015-11-11T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/mysterious-grooves-on-this-tiny-moon-point-to-almost-certain-death"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:47:02","slug":"mysterious-grooves-on-this-tiny-moon-point-to-almost-certain-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/mysterious-grooves-on-this-tiny-moon-point-to-almost-certain-death","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious grooves on this tiny moon point to almost certain death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-grooves-on-this-tiny-moon-point-to-almost-certain-death.jpg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve said it before: Mars\u2019 moon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/116605\/is-phobos-doomed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Phobos is doomed<\/a>. But a new study indicates it might be worse than we thought.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most striking features we see on images of Phobos is the parallel sets of grooves on the moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>They were originally thought to be fractures caused by an impact long ago. But scientists now say the grooves are early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mars-is-pulling-phobos-apart-2015-11\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve said it before: Mars\u2019 moon Phobos is doomed. But a new study indicates it might be worse than we thought. One of the most striking features we see on images of Phobos is the parallel sets of grooves on the moon\u2019s surface. They were originally thought to be fractures caused by an impact long [\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-19261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261","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=19261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51326,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261\/revisions\/51326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}