{"id":150408,"date":"2022-11-17T00:23:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/meteorite-that-landed-in-cotswolds-may-solve-mystery-of-earths-water"},"modified":"2022-11-17T00:23:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T06:23:31","slug":"meteorite-that-landed-in-cotswolds-may-solve-mystery-of-earths-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/meteorite-that-landed-in-cotswolds-may-solve-mystery-of-earths-water","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite that landed in Cotswolds may solve mystery of Earth\u2019s water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meteorite-that-landed-in-cotswolds-may-solve-mystery-of-earths-water2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water covers three-quarters of the Earth\u2019s surface and was crucial for the emergence of life, but its origins have remained a subject of active debate among scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a 4.6bn-year-old rock that crashed on to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/mar\/09\/rare-meteorite-chunk-traced-by-scientists-to-gloucestershire-driveway\">driveway in Gloucestershire last year<\/a> has provided some of the most compelling evidence to date that water arrived on Earth from asteroids in the outer solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water covers three-quarters of the Earth\u2019s surface and was crucial for the emergence of life, but its origins have remained a subject of active debate among scientists. Now, a 4.6bn-year-old rock that crashed on to a driveway in Gloucestershire last year has provided some of the most compelling evidence to date that water arrived on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150408","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}