{"id":150438,"date":"2022-11-17T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/early-meteorites-brought-enough-water-to-mars-to-create-a-global-ocean"},"modified":"2022-11-17T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T22:24:37","slug":"early-meteorites-brought-enough-water-to-mars-to-create-a-global-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/early-meteorites-brought-enough-water-to-mars-to-create-a-global-ocean","title":{"rendered":"Early meteorites brought enough water to Mars to create a global ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/early-meteorites-brought-enough-water-to-mars-to-create-a-global-ocean2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meteorites that bombarded Mars during the early days of the inner solar system may have carried enough water to create a 300-metre-deep ocean on the planet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globe.ku.dk\/staff-list\/?pure=en\/persons\/283253\">Martin Bizzarro<\/a> at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and his colleagues have analysed the concentration of a rare chromium isotope, known as chromium-54, in samples of meteorites that have come to Earth from Mars to estimate how much water was deposited on the Red Planet by asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>The uppermost layer of Mars contains the chemical signatures of carbonaceous, or C-type, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2207355-mars-meteorite-assault-stopped-500-million-years-earlier-than-thought\/\">meteorites that bombarded it<\/a> as its crust solidified some 4.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meteorites that bombarded Mars during the early days of the inner solar system may have carried enough water to create a 300-metre-deep ocean on the planet. Martin Bizzarro at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and his colleagues have analysed the concentration of a rare chromium isotope, known as chromium-54, in samples of meteorites [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150438","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=150438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}