{"id":116991,"date":"2020-12-11T22:26:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-nasa-scientist-heralds-one-of-the-most-profound-discoveries-of-the-space-age"},"modified":"2020-12-11T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T06:26:59","slug":"a-nasa-scientist-heralds-one-of-the-most-profound-discoveries-of-the-space-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-nasa-scientist-heralds-one-of-the-most-profound-discoveries-of-the-space-age","title":{"rendered":"A NASA Scientist Heralds \u201cOne of the Most Profound Discoveries\u201d of the Space Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nasa-scientist-heralds-one-of-the-most-profound-discoveries-of-the-space-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, scientists have learned that one of Earth\u2019s most unique features \u2014 its liquid oceans \u2014 is far more common throughout the solar system than scientists ever expected.<\/p>\n<p>Take Ceres, a dwarf planet orbiting our Sun inside the asteroid belt, which scientists discovered earlier this year is actually an ocean world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/the-sciences\/earth-isnt-the-only-ocean-world-in-the-solar-system\">according to <em>Discover Magazine<\/em><\/a>. The discovery of abundant water on other worlds could have huge implications for the search for extraterrestrial life \u2014 to the point that NASA astronomer Alan Stern tells <em>Discover<\/em> that it\u2019s \u201cone of the most profound discoveries in planetary science in the Space Age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, scientists have learned that one of Earth\u2019s most unique features \u2014 its liquid oceans \u2014 is far more common throughout the solar system than scientists ever expected. Take Ceres, a dwarf planet orbiting our Sun inside the asteroid belt, which scientists discovered earlier this year is actually an ocean world, according to [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116991","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=116991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}