{"id":115788,"date":"2020-11-12T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/why-is-mars-so-important-for-humanity"},"modified":"2020-11-12T16:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T00:22:16","slug":"why-is-mars-so-important-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/why-is-mars-so-important-for-humanity","title":{"rendered":"Why is Mars so important for humanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9HGRReKUzfU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s touchdown again on <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/mars\/overview\/\">Mars<\/a>, thanks to NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/insight\/\">InSight<\/a> probe. This latest mission will continue our exploration of much that is still unknown about the planet.<\/p>\n<p>As seen from Earth, the big red dot in the night sky has certainly caught the attention of humans since we started contemplating the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The first observations with telescopes gave us a much clearer picture of Mars, with the poles covered in ice and different tones of red and black in the tropics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s touchdown again on Mars, thanks to NASA\u2019s InSight probe. This latest mission will continue our exploration of much that is still unknown about the planet. As seen from Earth, the big red dot in the night sky has certainly caught the attention of humans since we started contemplating the universe. The first observations with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115788","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\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}