{"id":153427,"date":"2022-12-22T13:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/ancient-mars-did-not-have-atmospheric-oxygen-claims-new-research"},"modified":"2022-12-22T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:27:02","slug":"ancient-mars-did-not-have-atmospheric-oxygen-claims-new-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/ancient-mars-did-not-have-atmospheric-oxygen-claims-new-research","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Mars did not have atmospheric oxygen, claims new research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-mars-did-not-have-atmospheric-oxygen-claims-new-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That does not mean the planet did not have life.<\/p>\n<p>A new experimental study conducted by Washington University in St. Louis is defeating any hope that scientists have had that atmospheric oxygen once existed on the Red Planet, according to a press release by the institution published on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the scientists have found that under Mars-like conditions, manganese oxides can be readily formed without any presence of atmospheric oxygen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Lubo Ivanko\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>The new research is indicating that just because NASA\u2019s Mars rovers found manganese oxides on Mars in 2014 does not mean that oxygen was actually present in the planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That does not mean the planet did not have life. A new experimental study conducted by Washington University in St. Louis is defeating any hope that scientists have had that atmospheric oxygen once existed on the Red Planet, according to a press release by the institution published on Thursday. Instead, the scientists have found that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153427","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=153427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}