{"601087":{"#nid":"601087","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Huge Sheets of Ice Found Hidden Just Beneath the Surface of Mars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026#39;s an established fact that Mars was once a warmer and wetter place, with liquid water covering much of its surface. Between 4.2 and 3.7 billion years ago, the planet lost its atmosphere, which caused most of its surface water to disappear. But according to a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6372\/199\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;led by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/\u0022\u003EU.S. Geological Survey\u003C\/a\u003E, erosion on the surface of Mars has revealed abundant deposits of water ice.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/wray-dr-james\u0022\u003EJames Wray\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, contributed to the study, as did\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eps.jhu.edu\/directory\/lujendra-ojha\/\u0022\u003ELujendra Ojha\u003C\/a\u003E, a former Tech researcher who led the 2015\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.readcube.com\/articles\/10.1038\/ngeo2546?r3_referer=nature\u0026amp;show_checkout=1\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;offering evidence of flowing water on Mars. Ojha is now at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jhu.edu\/\u0022\u003EJohns Hopkins University\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34651","created_gmt":"2018-01-19 20:34:11","changed_gmt":"2018-01-23 16:30:02","author":"mrosten3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"social media launch","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/138256\/huge-sheets-ice-found-hidden-just-beneath-surface-mars\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"175481":{"id":"175481","type":"image","title":"James Wray","body":null,"created":"1449179022","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:42","changed":"1475894816","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:56","alt":"James Wray","file":{"fid":"195846","name":"james.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/james_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/james_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":208720,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/james_0.jpg?itok=0zoK3QQg"}}},"media_ids":["175481"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"52181","name":"James Wray"},{"id":"176757","name":"Lujendra Ojha"},{"id":"7057","name":"Mars"},{"id":"8885","name":"ice"},{"id":"176827","name":"planet"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}