{"id":103325,"date":"2020-03-05T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-nasa-rover-has-found-evidence-of-ancient-life-on-mars"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:43:19","slug":"scientists-nasa-rover-has-found-evidence-of-ancient-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-nasa-rover-has-found-evidence-of-ancient-life-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Scientists: NASA Rover Has Found Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-nasa-rover-has-found-evidence-of-ancient-life-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Curiosity rover analyzes compounds by breaking them down into fragments. The upcoming European Space Agency\u2019s Rosalind Franklin rover, however, could fill in the gaps with its Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA), which doesn\u2019t use the same destructive technique as Curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>What has Schulze-Makuch most excited is the possibility of finding differing ratios of heavy and light isotopes in compounds, the result of organisms breaking down elements and \u201ca telltale signal for life,\u201d according to the researcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Carl Sagan said \u2018extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,\u2019\u201d Schulze-Makuch said. \u201cI think the proof will really require that we actually send people there, and an astronaut looks through a microscope and sees a moving microbe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curiosity rover analyzes compounds by breaking them down into fragments. The upcoming European Space Agency\u2019s Rosalind Franklin rover, however, could fill in the gaps with its Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA), which doesn\u2019t use the same destructive technique as Curiosity. What has Schulze-Makuch most excited is the possibility of finding differing ratios of heavy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103325","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=103325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}