{"id":103418,"date":"2020-03-07T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-discover-strong-evidence-of-life-on-mars"},"modified":"2020-03-11T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:56:39","slug":"scientists-discover-strong-evidence-of-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/scientists-discover-strong-evidence-of-life-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover strong evidence of life on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-strong-evidence-of-life-on-mars4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been expecting aliens from Mars for decades now, but what if life was vanquished on the red planet before evolution ever got the chance to take hold?<\/p>\n<p>A pair of researchers recently published an analysis of 3.5 billion-years-old soil samples from Mars containing chemical compounds called \u201cthiophenes\u201d that could, potentially, be organic. If they are, it would be highly likely that bacteria once lived on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Terrestrial thiophenes are considered tell-tale signs of life by Earthbound biologists. The presence of these possibly-organic compounds in Martian soil represents the strongest evidence yet that life may have once existed anywhere other than Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been expecting aliens from Mars for decades now, but what if life was vanquished on the red planet before evolution ever got the chance to take hold? A pair of researchers recently published an analysis of 3.5 billion-years-old soil samples from Mars containing chemical compounds called \u201cthiophenes\u201d that could, potentially, be organic. If they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103418","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=103418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103623,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103418\/revisions\/103623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}