{"id":125402,"date":"2021-07-23T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/perseverances-hunt-for-ancient-life-reveals-2-red-planet-discoveries"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:22:18","slug":"perseverances-hunt-for-ancient-life-reveals-2-red-planet-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/perseverances-hunt-for-ancient-life-reveals-2-red-planet-discoveries","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance\u2019s hunt for ancient life reveals 2 Red Planet discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tfmNhgsv8qc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The search for life beyond Earth is on.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s newest <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/perseverance-rover-mars-facts\">Mars rover<\/a> is getting ready to collect its first rock sample from the surface of <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/mars-2020-mission-stories-of-the-perseverance-rover\">Mars<\/a> and stow it away for a future return mission to Earth, where NASA will test it for signs of <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/whats-the-best-evidence-of-life-on-mars\">ancient microbial life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance\u2019s science campaign has just begun, and the rover has already stumbled upon interesting rocks and sedimentary layers that tell a part of Mars\u2019 larger history.<\/p>\n<p>The Perseverance rover <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/nasas-perseverance-rover-has-touched-down-on-mars\">landed on Mars<\/a> on February 18 and has been on a Martian road trip ever since to scour its landing site, <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/51010-nasa-chooses-jezero-crater-for-mars-2020-landing\">Jezero Crater<\/a>. Jezero is a 28-mile wide, 1600-foot deep crater located in a basin slightly north of the Martian equator. It once housed an ancient lake estimated to have dried out 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for life beyond Earth is on. NASA\u2019s newest Mars rover is getting ready to collect its first rock sample from the surface of Mars and stow it away for a future return mission to Earth, where NASA will test it for signs of ancient microbial life. Perseverance\u2019s science campaign has just begun, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125402","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}