{"id":100972,"date":"2020-01-16T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/strange-martian-mineral-mounds-rise-up-from-utahs-great-salt-lake"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T03:48:16","slug":"strange-martian-mineral-mounds-rise-up-from-utahs-great-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/strange-martian-mineral-mounds-rise-up-from-utahs-great-salt-lake","title":{"rendered":"Strange \u2018Martian\u2019 Mineral Mounds Rise Up from Utah\u2019s Great Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-martian-mineral-mounds-rise-up-from-utahs-great-salt-lake2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rare mounds of a crystalline mineral have emerged above the surface of Utah\u2019s Great Salt Lake, where they\u2019re expected to remain just a few months before disappearing again.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists think these mounds may be similar to mineral structures on Mars that could preserve traces of microbes that may have lived in the planet\u2019s saltwater lakes billions of years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare mounds of a crystalline mineral have emerged above the surface of Utah\u2019s Great Salt Lake, where they\u2019re expected to remain just a few months before disappearing again. Scientists think these mounds may be similar to mineral structures on Mars that could preserve traces of microbes that may have lived in the planet\u2019s saltwater lakes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}