{"id":12290,"date":"2016-01-20T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2021-03-31T06:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T12:47:49","slug":"nova-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12290","title":{"rendered":"NOVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/beneath_ice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12291\" src=\"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/beneath_ice-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"beneath_ice\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/beneath_ice-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/beneath_ice.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>MYSTERY BENEATH THE ICE<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 @ 8:00PM &amp; 12:00AM<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Tiny, transparent, and threatened, krill are crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem. But the population of krill is crashing for reasons that continue to baffle the experts. A leading theory says that krill\u2019s life cycle is driven by an internal body clock that responds to the waxing and waning of the Antarctic ice pack, and as climate change alters the timing of the ice pack, their life cycle is disrupted. To test it, NOVA travels on the <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Polarstern<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, a state-of-the-art research vessel, to the frigid ice pack in the dead of winter. From camps established on the ice, scientists dive beneath the surface in search of the ice caves that shelter juvenile krill during the winter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/nova-mystery-beneath-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><br \/>\nFIND OUT MORE \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MYSTERY BENEATH THE ICE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 @ 8:00PM &amp; 12:00AM Tiny, transparent, and threatened, krill are crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem. But the population of krill is crashing for reasons that continue to baffle the experts. A leading theory says that krill\u2019s life cycle is driven by an internal body clock that responds to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=12290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NOVA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12290"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24624,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions\/24624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}