{"id":84755,"date":"2018-11-15T06:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/lost-continents-beneath-antarctica-unveiled-in-dead-satellites-data"},"modified":"2018-11-15T06:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:22:42","slug":"lost-continents-beneath-antarctica-unveiled-in-dead-satellites-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/lost-continents-beneath-antarctica-unveiled-in-dead-satellites-data","title":{"rendered":"Lost Continents Beneath Antarctica Unveiled in Dead Satellite\u2019s Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lost-continents-beneath-antarctica-unveiled-in-dead-satellites-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ancient continents were found under Antarctic ice, thanks to old data from a now-dead European satellite.<\/p>\n<p>New analysis of data from the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission has revealed rocky zones called \u201ccratons\u201d in the Earth\u2019s lithosphere, a zone between our planet\u2019s crust and mantle. GOCE plunged into Earth\u2019s atmosphere five years ago this month after the craft ran out of orbital-maneuvering fuel. While scientists were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/23544-goce-satellite-falls-from-space.html\">unable to predict exactly where GOCE would fall<\/a>, no debris dropped into populated areas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42432-ancient-antarctic-continents-revealed-satellite-data.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42432-ancient-antarctic-continents-rev...-data.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient continents were found under Antarctic ice, thanks to old data from a now-dead European satellite. New analysis of data from the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission has revealed rocky zones called \u201ccratons\u201d in the Earth\u2019s lithosphere, a zone between our planet\u2019s crust and mantle. GOCE plunged into Earth\u2019s atmosphere five [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84755","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}