{"id":37,"date":"2019-06-05T04:14:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T04:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estudiopatagon.com\/themes\/wordpress\/breek\/?p=37"},"modified":"2019-06-05T04:14:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T04:14:29","slug":"on-icy-pluto-volcanoes-may-spout-liquid-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"On Icy Pluto, Volcanoes May Spout Liquid Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A whiff of ammonia in reddish ices on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/43-pluto-the-ninth-planet-that-was-a-dwarf.html\">Pluto<\/a>&nbsp;may be evidence of recent geological activity on the dwarf planet, with liquid water spewing out from Pluto&#8217;s depths like molten lava would on Earth, a new study finds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>These findings suggest that Pluto may harbor at least some features favorable to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/search-for-life\">evolution of life<\/a>, researchers said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Scientists analyzed data that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18377-new-horizons.html\">NASA&#8217;s New Horizons probe<\/a>&nbsp;gathered during its flyby of the dwarf planet in 2015. In this data, they found evidence of ammonia on Pluto&#8217;s surface in areas that previous research suggested had experienced tectonic activity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;In recent years, ammonia has been a bit like the &#8216;holy grail&#8217; of planetary science,&#8221; study lead author Cristina Dalle Ore, a planetary scientist at NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, told Space.com. One reason for this is that ammonia is a key ingredient in chemical reactions underlying life as we know it, &#8220;and therefore, when found, it flags [the presence of] an environment that is conducive to life. This does not mean that life is present \u2014 and we have not yet found it \u2014 but it indicates a place where we should look.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Ammonia &#8220;is a fragile molecule and gets destroyed by ultraviolet irradiation as well as cosmic rays,&#8221; Dalle Ore said. &#8220;Therefore, when found on a surface, it implies that it had been emplaced there relatively recently, some million years before [being found].&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whiff of ammonia in reddish ices on&nbsp;Pluto&nbsp;may be evidence of recent geological activity on the dwarf planet, with liquid water spewing out from Pluto&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalcoder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}