{"id":116296,"date":"2020-11-24T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T01:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/nasa-data-shows-evidence-of-ancient-megafloods-on-mars"},"modified":"2020-11-24T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T01:22:53","slug":"nasa-data-shows-evidence-of-ancient-megafloods-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/nasa-data-shows-evidence-of-ancient-megafloods-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA Data Shows Evidence of Ancient \u201cMegafloods\u201d on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-data-shows-evidence-of-ancient-megafloods-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Megafloods on Mars. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Swept Away<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The end result \u2014 which the scientists identified using data from NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover \u2014 is that the floods shaped the surface of Mars into 30-foot-tall ripples of rock and dust. The water itself is long gone \u2014 but the scientists speculate that the floods means the planet may have been inhabitable at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly Mars was an extremely active planet from a geological point of view,\u201d study coauthor Alberto Fair\u00e9n, an astrobiologist visiting Cornell, said in the release. \u201cThe planet had the conditions needed to support the presence of liquid water on the surface \u2014 and on Earth, where there\u2019s water, there\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megafloods on Mars. \ud83d\ude03 Swept Away The end result \u2014 which the scientists identified using data from NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover \u2014 is that the floods shaped the surface of Mars into 30-foot-tall ripples of rock and dust. The water itself is long gone \u2014 but the scientists speculate that the floods means the planet may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116296","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}