{"id":1334,"date":"2008-02-02T21:04:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T21:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/02\/giant-spider-found-on-planet-m\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T21:04:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T21:04:46","slug":"giant-spider-found-on-planet-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/giant-spider-found-on-planet-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Spider Found on Planet Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-a3ecf9e639b53affcf859eb8655ce755-mercury.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-a3ecf9e639b53affcf859eb8655ce755-mercury.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>This looks like a photograph of a mountain, possibly a volcano, with natural drainage systems emanating  from it.  But it is not.<!--more-->It is actually a large depression with numerous troughs emanating, perhaps, into it.  They can&#8217;t be erosional features because that would require some kind of liquid, presumably not available on this planet.This is not the first photograph of a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/mercury_has_been_copyrighted.php\">strange thing<\/a> on the planet Mercury.  We need to start doing some &#8216;splaining.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-0084375835076425b6843d6ad0d87866-Mt_Hood.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-0084375835076425b6843d6ad0d87866-Mt_Hood.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Pictured here is a photo from space of Mt. Hood, near Seattle.  You can see a similar pattern, but in reverse.  So, I would propose that the &#8220;spider&#8221; found on Mercury be considered a possible &#8220;anti-mountain.&#8221;In fact, sources close to NASA\/JPL indicate that planetary scientists are searching the vicinity for an Anti-Starbucks.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/30\/AR2008013003299.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a photograph of a mountain, possibly a volcano, with natural drainage systems emanating from it. But it is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-lw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}