{"id":111921,"date":"2020-08-26T04:44:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/did-life-travel-between-earth-and-mars-new-study-supports-theory-of-panspermia"},"modified":"2020-08-26T04:44:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T11:44:39","slug":"did-life-travel-between-earth-and-mars-new-study-supports-theory-of-panspermia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/did-life-travel-between-earth-and-mars-new-study-supports-theory-of-panspermia","title":{"rendered":"Did life travel between Earth and Mars? New study supports theory of panspermia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-life-travel-between-earth-and-mars-new-study-supports-theory-of-panspermia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AROUND 4 BILLION YEARS AGO, LIFE BEGAN EMERGING ON EARTH in the form of microorganisms. Whether or not life originated on our planet, or was somehow transported there by way of a traveling asteroid, is one of the biggest questions in astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new experiment favors the idea that life ended up on our planet after a long journey through space \u2014 by proving that bacteria can in fact survive the trip.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists conducted an experiment onboard the International Space Station that supported the controversial theory of panspermia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AROUND 4 BILLION YEARS AGO, LIFE BEGAN EMERGING ON EARTH in the form of microorganisms. Whether or not life originated on our planet, or was somehow transported there by way of a traveling asteroid, is one of the biggest questions in astronomy. Now, a new experiment favors the idea that life ended up on our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111921","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=111921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}