{"id":122315,"date":"2021-05-06T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/scientists-claim-to-spot-fungus-growing-on-mars-in-nasa-rover-photos"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:22:42","slug":"scientists-claim-to-spot-fungus-growing-on-mars-in-nasa-rover-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/scientists-claim-to-spot-fungus-growing-on-mars-in-nasa-rover-photos","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Claim to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars in NASA Rover Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-claim-to-spot-fungus-growing-on-mars-in-nasa-rover-photos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team went so far as to say that \u201cblack fungi-bacteria-like specimens also appeared atop the rovers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t stop there: the team also examined photos taken by NASA\u2019s HiRISE, and found evidence for \u201camorphous specimens within a crevice\u201d that \u201cchanged shape and location then disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is well established that a variety of terrestrial organisms survive Mars-like conditions,\u201d the team concludes. \u201cGiven the likelihood Earth has been seeding Mars with life and life has been repeatedly transferred between worlds, it would be surprising if there was no life on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team went so far as to say that \u201cblack fungi-bacteria-like specimens also appeared atop the rovers.\u201d They didn\u2019t stop there: the team also examined photos taken by NASA\u2019s HiRISE, and found evidence for \u201camorphous specimens within a crevice\u201d that \u201cchanged shape and location then disappeared.\u201d \u201cIt is well established that a variety of terrestrial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122315","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}