{"id":146474,"date":"2022-09-15T19:24:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/perseverance-rover-finds-organic-matter-treasure-on-mars"},"modified":"2022-09-15T19:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:24:44","slug":"perseverance-rover-finds-organic-matter-treasure-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/perseverance-rover-finds-organic-matter-treasure-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance rover finds organic matter \u2018treasure\u2019 on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perseverance-rover-finds-organic-matter-treasure-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigating the site of an ancient river delta, the Perseverance rover has collected some of the most important samples yet on<strong> <\/strong>its<strong> <\/strong>mission to<strong> <\/strong>determine if life ever existed on Mars, according to NASA scientists.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the recently collected samples include organic matter, indicating that Jezero Crater, which likely once held a lake and the delta that emptied into it, had<strong> <\/strong>potentially habitable environments 3.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigating the site of an ancient river delta, the Perseverance rover has collected some of the most important samples yet on its mission to determine if life ever existed on Mars, according to NASA scientists. A few of the recently collected samples include organic matter, indicating that Jezero Crater, which likely once held a lake [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146474","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}