{"590641":{"#nid":"590641","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ay, Caramba! \u0027Bart Simpson\u0027 Landslide Reveals Ceres\u0027 Icy Innards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECeres may look like an ancient, inert mass of dusty rock hanging out in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, but the dwarf planet is proving itself to be to be a dynamic and fascinating place....Now it looks like landslides can be added to the mix. In a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ngeo2936.html#acknowledgments\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E published in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers have identified \u0026quot;flow features\u0026quot; on Ceres that look very much like landslides that occur on Earth (including one that looks surprisingly like TV\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;Bart Simpson) --\u0026nbsp;all of which are driven by the presence of water ice....\u0026quot;These landslides offer us the opportunity to understand what\u0026#39;s happening in the upper few kilometers of Ceres,\u0026quot; said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/content\/chilton-heather\u0022\u003EHeather Chilton\u003C\/a\u003E, co-author of the paper and a graduate\u0026nbsp;student in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u0026nbsp;at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u003Cem\u003EEAS Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Britney_Schmidt\u0022\u003EBritney Schmidt\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was the lead author on the study, and EAS graduate student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/content\/lawrence-justin\u0022\u003EJustin Lawrence\u003C\/a\u003E was a co-author.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-04-19 17:43:02","changed_gmt":"2017-04-19 20:09:19","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"GradIO","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36517-bart-simpson-landslides-on-ceres.html?utm_source=twitter\u0026utm_medium=social","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590642":{"id":"590642","type":"image","title":"Heather Chilton","body":null,"created":"1492623954","gmt_created":"2017-04-19 17:45:54","changed":"1492623954","gmt_changed":"2017-04-19 17:45:54","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225028","name":"Heather Chilton .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Heather%20Chilton%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Heather%20Chilton%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7584,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Heather%20Chilton%20.jpg?itok=ieIam-3e"}},"588624":{"id":"588624","type":"image","title":"Britney Schmidt","body":null,"created":"1489416856","gmt_created":"2017-03-13 14:54:16","changed":"1489416856","gmt_changed":"2017-03-13 14:54:16","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224319","name":"Britney Schmidt.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":674589,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg?itok=HjL2uGXw"}},"590644":{"id":"590644","type":"image","title":"Justin Lawrence ","body":null,"created":"1492624042","gmt_created":"2017-04-19 17:47:22","changed":"1492624042","gmt_changed":"2017-04-19 17:47:22","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225029","name":"Justin Lawrence .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Justin%20Lawrence%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Justin%20Lawrence%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8913,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Justin%20Lawrence%20.jpg?itok=cBqSvE8Z"}}},"media_ids":["590642","588624","590644"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"172496","name":"Ceres"},{"id":"81291","name":"Britney Schmidt"},{"id":"172495","name":"Heather Chilton"},{"id":"174094","name":"Justin Lawrence"},{"id":"8885","name":"ice"},{"id":"174095","name":"landslides"},{"id":"174075","name":"Dawn"}],"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":""}}}