{"id":34238,"date":"2018-10-30T16:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34238"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:28:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:58:49","slug":"scientists-mine-star-scar-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-mine-star-scar-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists mine \u2018star scar\u2019 in France:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/india\/the-hindu\/20171102\/282638917848029\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists mine \u2018star scar\u2019 in France<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An astrobleme was made by a massive space rock that crash-landed more than 200 million years ago in Rochechouart , has intrigued scientists since its discovery in the 19th century.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is an Astrobleme?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An astrobleme, literally means <\/span><b>\u2018star scar\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the name given to traces left by a major meteorite impact.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is the significance of this Astrobleme?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The astrobleme in Rochechouart is unusually close to the surface, making it easier to study.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The drilling, scheduled through November, will yield 20 core samples.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some scientists hope to tease out remaining mysteries about how such meteorites form, and what that might tell us about their evolution in space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Others are on the hunt for chemical traces that could shed light on the emergence of life on Earth, and which of the raw ingredients essential for life came from space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Geologists are curious about how such a cataclysmic impact might have released water held within rock formations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While palaeontologists are looking at how an event that could destroy life, at the same time, creates conditions for new lifeforms to emerge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists mine \u2018star scar\u2019 in France: Context: An astrobleme was made by a massive space rock that crash-landed more than 200 million years ago in Rochechouart , has intrigued scientists since its discovery in the 19th century. What is an Astrobleme? An astrobleme, literally means \u2018star scar\u2019 It is the name given to traces left&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-mine-star-scar-in-france\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists mine \u2018star scar\u2019 in France:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704894122},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}