{"id":111371,"date":"2020-08-15T03:11:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/sorry-despite-decades-of-exploration-mars-remains-almost-a-total-mystery"},"modified":"2020-08-15T03:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T10:11:25","slug":"sorry-despite-decades-of-exploration-mars-remains-almost-a-total-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/sorry-despite-decades-of-exploration-mars-remains-almost-a-total-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Despite Decades Of Exploration, Mars Remains Almost A Total Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sorry-despite-decades-of-exploration-mars-remains-almost-a-total-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent column in The Atlantic magazine, \u201cThe Most Overhyped Planet in the Galaxy\u201d implored the research community to expand its robotic exploration horizons beyond Mars. But despite arguments for rethinking what the article\u2019s author, Marina Koren, terms the U.S.\u2019 scientific \u201cMars monopoly\u201d in favor of some of our solar system\u2019s less-visited outer moons, scientific understanding of the Red Planet is arguably still decades away.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Rest assured, Mars should and will remain a scientific Valhalla for decades to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent column in The Atlantic magazine, \u201cThe Most Overhyped Planet in the Galaxy\u201d implored the research community to expand its robotic exploration horizons beyond Mars. But despite arguments for rethinking what the article\u2019s author, Marina Koren, terms the U.S.\u2019 scientific \u201cMars monopoly\u201d in favor of some of our solar system\u2019s less-visited outer moons, scientific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111371","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}