{"id":31435,"date":"2019-02-01T22:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31435"},"modified":"2019-02-01T22:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T22:23:05","slug":"gigantic-hole-two-thirds-the-size-of-manhattan-discovered-in-antarctic-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31435","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic hole two-thirds the size of Manhattan discovered in Antarctic glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A massive cavity two-thirds the size of Manhattan has been discovered growing in an Antarctic glacier, signaling rapid ice decay that has shocked scientists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The huge hole &#8212; measuring almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall &#8212; was found growing at an &#8220;explosive rate&#8221; at the bottom of a glacier in West Antarctica, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=7322\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a> in a statement Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Thwaites Glacier is around the size of Florida, and the team of NASA-led scientists researching it had expected to find &#8220;some gaps&#8221; between the ice and bedrock.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A massive cavity two-thirds the size of Manhattan has been discovered growing in an Antarctic glacier, signaling rapid ice decay that has shocked scientists.The huge hole &#8212; measuring almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall &#8212; was found growing at an &#8220;explosive rate&#8221; at the bottom of a glacier in West Antarctica, said NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}