{"id":151689,"date":"2022-12-02T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/megatsunami-on-mars-linked-to-an-asteroid-strike-3-4-billion-years-ago"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:25:58","slug":"megatsunami-on-mars-linked-to-an-asteroid-strike-3-4-billion-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/megatsunami-on-mars-linked-to-an-asteroid-strike-3-4-billion-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Megatsunami on Mars linked to an asteroid strike 3.4 billion years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/megatsunami-on-mars-linked-to-an-asteroid-strike-3-4-billion-years-ago2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event is likened to the Chicxulub collision on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>A study has found that the megatsunami that swept Mars around 3.4 billion years ago was caused by an asteroid strike on one of its oceans. The event is compared to the likes of the Chicxulub collision\u2014which is believed to have wiped out dinosaurs from the face of the earth about 66 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers, led by Alexis Rodriguez of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, have also suggested that NASA\u2019s Viking 1 Lander, which was deployed on a mission to find evidence of life on Mars in 1976, could have landed near the crater of this megatsunami.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Michalz86\/iStock shannonstent\/iStock Dominic Jeanmaire\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>The new study published in the journal Scientific Reports analyzed \u201cmaps of Mars\u2019 surface, created by combining images from previous missions to the planet, and identified an impact crater that could have caused the megatsunami,\u201d as mentioned in the press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event is likened to the Chicxulub collision on Earth. A study has found that the megatsunami that swept Mars around 3.4 billion years ago was caused by an asteroid strike on one of its oceans. The event is compared to the likes of the Chicxulub collision\u2014which is believed to have wiped out dinosaurs from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151689","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}