{"id":8081,"date":"2024-04-14T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2024-12-29T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T08:29:24","slug":"why-rocks-on-earth-resemble-planet-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/why-rocks-on-earth-resemble-planet-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Why rocks on Earth resemble planet Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"800\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0731.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0731-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0731-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0731-89x50.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0731-143x80.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Credit: Nasa\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Carnegie Institution of Washington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Curiosity has killed many an explorer, and Nicola Mari feared he was to be the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Driving around Cyprus&#8217;s remotest mountains, Mari had relied on his cell phone for directions. But as the light of the day faded, so did his phone battery \u2013 and he found himself stuck in the middle of nowhere with little idea of the way back to his lodgings. &#8220;I&#8217;d travelled for more than 50km (31 miles) without seeing another vehicle,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20240410-mercury-the-solar-systems-smallest-planet-may-once-have-been-as-large-as-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keep reading<\/a> on BBC\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity has killed many an explorer, and Nicola Mari feared he was to be the next. Driving around Cyprus&#8217;s remotest mountains, Mari had relied on his cell phone for directions. But as the light of the day faded, so did his phone battery \u2013 and he found himself stuck in the middle of nowhere with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8084,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}