{"id":3731,"date":"2009-05-22T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2009-05-22T02:40:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T06:40:25","slug":"journey-to-a-strange-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=3731","title":{"rendered":"Journey to a Strange Planet."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"alien-ice\"<\/p>\n

The stunning frozen terrain, above, made of ice several feet thick, but clear as glass, was photographed by explorers on the surface of a planet millions of miles from our Sun.<\/p>\n

It’s called Earth. (Heard of it?) But you’d never guess that from this image, shot in one of the most extreme deserts on Terra Firma, Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys<\/a>, or from these others photos of otherworldy locations across the globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Need a backdrop for your low-budget, sci-fi feature that says, “alien life forms nearby”? You could do worse than Socotra Island<\/a>, in the Indian Ocean, with its utterly bizzare, indigenous flora; Mauritania’s massive Richat Structure<\/a>; or the strangely hewn cliffs of China’s Stone Forest. It’s a beautiful planet, each of these locales is filled with beauty and mystery, and you don’t need a rocket to get to any of them: Just thousands of dollars in plane tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The stunning frozen terrain, above, made of ice several feet thick, but clear as glass, was photographed by explorers on the surface of a planet millions of miles from our Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,64,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}