{"id":86028,"date":"2018-12-21T06:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/water-on-mars-pictured-esa-shares-incredible-images-of-martian-ice-crater"},"modified":"2018-12-21T06:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:22:25","slug":"water-on-mars-pictured-esa-shares-incredible-images-of-martian-ice-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/water-on-mars-pictured-esa-shares-incredible-images-of-martian-ice-crater","title":{"rendered":"Water on Mars PICTURED: ESA shares incredible IMAGES of Martian ice crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-on-mars-pictured-esa-shares-incredible-images-of-martian-ice-crater.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HUGE skating rink?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The European Space Agency has shared an incredible composite image showing a 50-mile wide crater on Mars that is filled with water ice all year long.<\/p>\n<p>Budding future colonists hoping for a white Christmas on Mars will be somewhat disappointed as the ESA has confirmed that sitting in the Korolev crater is, in fact, a thick block of water ice, not snow. The enormous, 82-kilometer-wide, 2-kilometer-deep <em>\u201cice trap\u201d<\/em> could still be good for ice skating though.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/447139-mars-water-ice-images-esa\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/447139-mars-water-ice-images-esa\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUGE skating rink? The European Space Agency has shared an incredible composite image showing a 50-mile wide crater on Mars that is filled with water ice all year long. Budding future colonists hoping for a white Christmas on Mars will be somewhat disappointed as the ESA has confirmed that sitting in the Korolev crater is, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86028","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}