{"id":72893,"date":"2017-09-28T10:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/plutos-gargantuan-glacial-skyscrapers-reveal-their-secrets"},"modified":"2017-10-08T01:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T08:21:51","slug":"plutos-gargantuan-glacial-skyscrapers-reveal-their-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/plutos-gargantuan-glacial-skyscrapers-reveal-their-secrets","title":{"rendered":"Pluto\u2019s Gargantuan Glacial \u201cSkyscrapers\u201d Reveal Their Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plutos-gargantuan-glacial-skyscrapers-reveal-their-secrets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The jagged geological ridges, found at the highest elevations located close to Pluto\u2019s equator, soar hundreds of feet into the sky and are as high as some of the tallest skyscrapers on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article in the latest issue of planetary science journal, Icarus, the colossal \u201cice-scrapers\u201d observed on Pluto\u2019s surface are vestiges from the last Ice Age that occurred on the dwarf planet millions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe that the \u201cice blades\u201d are the result of solid methane evaporation that formed the towers of ice on the mountain peaks along Chile\u2019s Chajnantor plain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/201709281057781621-pluto-icescrapers-mystery\/\">https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/us\/201709281057781621-pluto-icescrapers-mystery\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jagged geological ridges, found at the highest elevations located close to Pluto\u2019s equator, soar hundreds of feet into the sky and are as high as some of the tallest skyscrapers on Earth. According to an article in the latest issue of planetary science journal, Icarus, the colossal \u201cice-scrapers\u201d observed on Pluto\u2019s surface are vestiges [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72893","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73123,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72893\/revisions\/73123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}