{"id":119434,"date":"2021-02-11T02:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T10:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/a-previously-unseen-chemical-reaction-has-been-detected-on-mars"},"modified":"2021-02-11T02:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T10:23:07","slug":"a-previously-unseen-chemical-reaction-has-been-detected-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/a-previously-unseen-chemical-reaction-has-been-detected-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"A Previously Unseen Chemical Reaction Has Been Detected on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-previously-unseen-chemical-reaction-has-been-detected-on-mars3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars-dust-storm-is-so-big-it-s-now-encircling-the-planet-but-nasa-s-not-giving-up-on-opportunity\">giant Martian sandstorm of 2018<\/a> wasn\u2019t just a wild ride \u2014 it also gave us a previously undetected gas in the planet\u2019s atmosphere. For the first time, the ExoMars orbiter sampled traces of hydrogen chloride, composed of a hydrogen and a chlorine atom.<\/p>\n<p>This gas presents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mars\">Mars<\/a> scientists with a new mystery to solve: how it got there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve discovered hydrogen chloride for the first time on Mars,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Exploration\/ExoMars\/ExoMars_discovers_new_gas_and_traces_water_loss_on_Mars\">said physicist Kevin Olsen<\/a> of the University of Oxford in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The giant Martian sandstorm of 2018 wasn\u2019t just a wild ride \u2014 it also gave us a previously undetected gas in the planet\u2019s atmosphere. For the first time, the ExoMars orbiter sampled traces of hydrogen chloride, composed of a hydrogen and a chlorine atom. This gas presents Mars scientists with a new mystery to solve: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119434","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}