{"590497":{"#nid":"590497","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Saturn Moon Titan\u0027s \u0027Electric Sand\u0027 Would Make Super Castles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EElectrified sands on Saturn\u0026#39;s largest moon, Titan, may stick together due to static cling, potentially meaning that sand castles there would last for weeks, a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/v10\/n4\/full\/ngeo2921.html\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E finds....\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Josh_Mendez\u0022\u003EJoshua M\u0026eacute;ndez\u003C\/a\u003E, a granular dynamicist and graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,\u0026nbsp;speculated that the moon\u0026#39;s sand might readily become electrically charged, making its behavior significantly different from that of Earth sand. \u003Cem\u003EMendez collaborated on the study with Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Josef_Dufek\u0022\u003EJosef Dufek\u003C\/a\u003E and graduate student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/content\/mcdonald-george\u0022\u003EGeorge McDonald\u003C\/a\u003E, all with the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-04-17 14:29:06","changed_gmt":"2017-04-17 15:56:59","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"GradIO","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36472-saturn-moon-titan-electric-sand.html","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"589555":{"id":"589555","type":"image","title":"Josh Mendez Harper","body":null,"created":"1490898752","gmt_created":"2017-03-30 18:32:32","changed":"1490898752","gmt_changed":"2017-03-30 18:32:32","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224623","name":"Josh Mendez Harper.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Josh%20Mendez%20Harper.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Josh%20Mendez%20Harper.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":7836,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Josh%20Mendez%20Harper.jpg?itok=RoLDQSjw"}},"589558":{"id":"589558","type":"image","title":"Josef Dufek","body":null,"created":"1490899786","gmt_created":"2017-03-30 18:49:46","changed":"1490899786","gmt_changed":"2017-03-30 18:49:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224625","name":"Josef Dufek.gif","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Josef%20Dufek.gif","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Josef%20Dufek.gif","mime":"image\/gif","size":36802,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Josef%20Dufek.gif?itok=LtE93a15"}},"589556":{"id":"589556","type":"image","title":"George McDonald","body":null,"created":"1490898831","gmt_created":"2017-03-30 18:33:51","changed":"1490898831","gmt_changed":"2017-03-30 18:33:51","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224624","name":"George McDonald .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/George%20McDonald%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/George%20McDonald%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":133351,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/George%20McDonald%20.jpg?itok=pyMYOWpf"}}},"media_ids":["589555","589558","589556"],"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":"174067","name":"Joshua Mendez"},{"id":"32491","name":"Josef Dufek"},{"id":"173913","name":"George McDonald"},{"id":"13302","name":"Titan"},{"id":"174068","name":"electric sands"},{"id":"174069","name":"granular dynamicist"}],"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":""}}}