{"id":148625,"date":"2022-10-21T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity-reaches-intriguing-salty-site-after-treacherous-journey"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:24:24","slug":"nasas-mars-rover-curiosity-reaches-intriguing-salty-site-after-treacherous-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity-reaches-intriguing-salty-site-after-treacherous-journey","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mars rover Curiosity reaches intriguing salty site after treacherous journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-mars-rover-curiosity-reaches-intriguing-salty-site-after-treacherous-journey3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a treacherous journey, NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover has reached an area that is thought to have formed billions of years ago when the Red Planet\u2019s water disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>This region of Mount Sharp, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17963-mars-curiosity.html\">Curiosity rover<\/a>\u2019s Martian stomping ground, is rich in salty minerals that scientists think were left behind when streams and ponds dried up. As such, this region could hold tantalizing clues about how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html\">Martian<\/a> climate changed from being similar to Earth\u2019s to the frozen, barren desert that Curiosity explores today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a treacherous journey, NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover has reached an area that is thought to have formed billions of years ago when the Red Planet\u2019s water disappeared. This region of Mount Sharp, the Curiosity rover\u2019s Martian stomping ground, is rich in salty minerals that scientists think were left behind when streams and ponds dried [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148625","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}