{"id":1615,"date":"2012-11-27T01:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T00:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:11:04","slug":"guess-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2012\/11\/27\/guess-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess what"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strawberry ice-cream with vanilla and caramel? Cross-country ski slopes with bushes and fir trees? Japanese seaweed on a weird beach?\u00a0You are nowhere near. Look again &#8212; dream on and only then look<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1616\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2012\/11\/27\/guess-what\/avalanches\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanches.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Avalanches\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanches.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1616\" title=\"Avalanches\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanches.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanches.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanches-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanches-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Avalanches on Mars! Close to the North Pole of our neighbouring planet the extremely cold winter traps the atmospheric carbon dioxide as ice that settles on the top of sand dunes. Everything is covered by fine dust coloured red by iron. When the ice thaws and sublimate into air the sand below it is released and descends down as long brown avalanches &#8212; looking like trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanche-detail1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1617\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2012\/11\/27\/guess-what\/avalanche-detail-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanche-detail1.png\" data-orig-size=\"1134,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Avalanche detail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanche-detail1-1024x270.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1617\" title=\"Avalanche detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanche-detail1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1134\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanche-detail1.png 1134w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanche-detail1-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanche-detail1-1024x270.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Avalanche-detail1-624x165.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1134px) 100vw, 1134px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right in the middle of the picture, a little to the left of the center, you can see an avalanche photographed in action. The bowl of dust\u00a0 bears witness to an avalanche caught in the act. On Mars! The cloud is maybe 25 meters across. The whole image one kilometer. The photo is takes by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter\">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>. More about the image <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap121125.html\">here<\/a>. More about the avalanches <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/11\/another-dose-of-martian-awesome\/\">here<\/a>. More about the experience <strong>inside you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strawberry ice-cream with vanilla and caramel? Cross-country ski slopes with bushes and fir trees? Japanese seaweed on a weird beach?\u00a0You are nowhere near. Look again &#8212; dream on and only then look Avalanches on Mars! Close to the North Pole of our neighbouring planet the extremely cold winter traps the atmospheric carbon dioxide as ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[131,129,130],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-fun","tag-mars","tag-photo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2FKoN-q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}