{"id":117339,"date":"2020-12-18T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/heres-the-truth-about-that-photo-of-mushrooms-growing-on-mars"},"modified":"2020-12-18T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T03:24:11","slug":"heres-the-truth-about-that-photo-of-mushrooms-growing-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/heres-the-truth-about-that-photo-of-mushrooms-growing-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s The Truth About That Photo of \u2018Mushrooms\u2019 Growing on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-the-truth-about-that-photo-of-mushrooms-growing-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A peculiar new <a href=\"http:\/\/journalofastrobiology.com\/Mars5.html\">paper<\/a>, published in a little-known scientific journal, has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/8719987\/life-on-mars-fungi-mushroom-mars-curiosity-rover-nasa\/\">tabloids<\/a> stirred up about the possibility of life on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mars\">Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to this paper, an international team of scientists are now claiming to have found evidence of \u2018mushrooms\u2019 growing on the surface of the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018evidence\u2019 is primarily based on images, taken by NASA\u2019s Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, which capture a birds-eye-view of what look like, well, mushrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. A peculiar new paper, published in a little-known scientific journal, has the tabloids stirred up about the possibility of life on Mars. According to this paper, an international team of scientists are now claiming to have found evidence of \u2018mushrooms\u2019 growing on the surface of the Red Planet. The \u2018evidence\u2019 is primarily based on [\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-117339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117339","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=117339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}