{"590649":{"#nid":"590649","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Saturn moon Titan\u0027s \u0022electric sand\u0022 would make super castles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EElectrified sands on Saturn\u0026#39;s largest moon, Titan,\u0026nbsp;may stick together due to static cling, potentially meaning that sand castles there would last for weeks, a new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/v10\/n4\/full\/ngeo2921.html\u0022\u003Estudy \u003C\/a\u003Efinds....\u0026quot;At first glance, if you look at images from NASA\u0026rsquo;s Cassini spacecraft, Titan looks very Earth-like, with dunes, lakes, oceans, mountains and potentially volcanoes, and it has a dense, nitrogen-rich\u0026nbsp;atmosphere\u0026nbsp;like Earth\u0026rsquo;s,\u0026rdquo; said study lead author \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Josh_Mendez\u0022\u003EJoshua M\u0026eacute;ndez,\u003C\/a\u003E a granular dynamicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. \u0026ldquo;But once you start looking at the details, you realize that it is an alien and exciting world.\u0026rdquo; \u003Cem\u003EMendez collaborated on the study with Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Josef_Dufek\u0022\u003EJosef Dufek \u003C\/a\u003Eand graduate student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/content\/mcdonald-george\u0022\u003EGeorge McDonald\u003C\/a\u003E, all\u0026nbsp;with the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-04-19 18:11:58","changed_gmt":"2017-04-19 18:11:58","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Roswell Biotechnologies","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/saturn-moon-titans-electric-sand-would-make-super-castles\/","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"}],"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":""}}}