{"id":32060,"date":"2016-11-18T14:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T22:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-discovered-a-mind-boggling-chasm-on-mercury"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:19:24","slug":"scientists-discovered-a-mind-boggling-chasm-on-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-discovered-a-mind-boggling-chasm-on-mercury","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discovered a Mind-Boggling Chasm on Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discovered-a-mind-boggling-chasm-on-mercury.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Placed on Earth, it would stretch from Washington DC to New York to Detroit. Larger than the Grand Canyon, wider and deeper than East Africa\u2019s Great Rift Valley, Mercury\u2019s newly-discovered \u201cGreat Valley\u201d boggles the imagination. But it\u2019s more than size that makes this geologic feature remarkable. The Great Valley may be our best evidence that Mercury\u2019s entire crust is contracting.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-discovered-a-mind-boggling-chasm-on-mercury-1789147719?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gizmodo_facebook\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-discovered-a-mind-boggling-cha...o_facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placed on Earth, it would stretch from Washington DC to New York to Detroit. Larger than the Grand Canyon, wider and deeper than East Africa\u2019s Great Rift Valley, Mercury\u2019s newly-discovered \u201cGreat Valley\u201d boggles the imagination. But it\u2019s more than size that makes this geologic feature remarkable. The Great Valley may be our best evidence that [\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-32060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060","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=32060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49574,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions\/49574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}