{"id":31935,"date":"2019-02-05T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31935"},"modified":"2019-02-05T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:22:36","slug":"mud-and-vegetation-on-new-island-baffle-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31935","title":{"rendered":"Mud and vegetation on new island baffle scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Scientists who visited one of the world&#8217;s newest and most unique islands last year discovered a mysterious, sticky mud, said NASA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The island is located in the South Pacific near Tonga and is unofficially called Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha&#8217;apai (Hunga Tonga). It came into being after a volcanic eruption in late December 2014 connected two older islands. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2017\/nasa-shows-new-tongan-island-made-of-tuff-stuff-likely-to-persist-years\" target=\"_blank\">NASA says <\/a>it is the first island of its kind formed since satellites began consistently taking pictures of Earth. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Scientists initially predicted it would be around for just a few months. But a NASA study released in 2017 found that the island survived &#8220;against all odds&#8221; and could last from six to 30 years.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Scientists who visited one of the world&#8217;s newest and most unique islands last year discovered a mysterious, sticky mud, said NASA.The island is located in the South Pacific near Tonga and is unofficially called Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha&#8217;apai (Hunga Tonga). It came into being after a volcanic eruption in late December 2014 connected two older islands.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31935","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\/31935","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=31935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}