{"id":144810,"date":"2022-08-25T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/first-underground-radar-images-from-mars-perseverance-rover-reveal-some-surprises"},"modified":"2022-08-25T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T00:24:11","slug":"first-underground-radar-images-from-mars-perseverance-rover-reveal-some-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/first-underground-radar-images-from-mars-perseverance-rover-reveal-some-surprises","title":{"rendered":"First underground radar images from Mars Perseverance Rover reveal some surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-underground-radar-images-from-mars-perseverance-rover-reveal-some-surprises2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a tantalizing year-and-a-half wait since the Mars Perseverance Rover touched down on our nearest planetary neighbor, new data is arriving\u2014and bringing with it a few surprises.<\/p>\n<p>The rover, which is about the size of car and carries seven <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/scientific+instruments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">scientific instruments<\/a>, has been probing Mars\u2019 30-mile-wide Jezero crater, once the site of a lake and an ideal spot to search for evidence of ancient life and information about the planet\u2019s geological and climatic past.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published today in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, a research team led by UCLA and the University of Oslo reveals that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/rock+layers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rock layers<\/a> beneath the crater\u2019s floor, observed by the rover\u2019s ground-penetrating radar instrument, are unexpectedly inclined. The slopes, thicknesses and shapes of the inclined sections suggest they were either formed by slowly cooling lava or deposited as sediments in the former lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a tantalizing year-and-a-half wait since the Mars Perseverance Rover touched down on our nearest planetary neighbor, new data is arriving\u2014and bringing with it a few surprises. The rover, which is about the size of car and carries seven scientific instruments, has been probing Mars\u2019 30-mile-wide Jezero crater, once the site of a lake and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144810","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=144810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}