{"id":155011,"date":"2023-01-09T20:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T02:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-green-comet-that-takes-about-50000-years-to-complete-its-orbit-around-the-sun-will-come-closest-to-earth-for-the-first-time-since-the-stone-age"},"modified":"2023-01-09T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T02:22:54","slug":"a-green-comet-that-takes-about-50000-years-to-complete-its-orbit-around-the-sun-will-come-closest-to-earth-for-the-first-time-since-the-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-green-comet-that-takes-about-50000-years-to-complete-its-orbit-around-the-sun-will-come-closest-to-earth-for-the-first-time-since-the-stone-age","title":{"rendered":"A green comet that takes about 50,000 years to complete its orbit around the sun will come closest to Earth for the first time since the Stone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-green-comet-that-takes-about-50000-years-to-complete-its-orbit-around-the-sun-will-come-closest-to-earth-for-the-first-time-since-the-stone-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20221219-nasas-curiosity-rover-discovers-waterrich-fracture-halos-gale-crater\">believe they\u2019ve discovered<\/a> a cache of gemstones on the surface of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>No, we\u2019re not talking about diamonds \u2014 according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2020JE006600\">study<\/a> published last month in the <em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets<\/em> by a team of Arizona State University and NASA-affiliated researchers, the Red Planet\u2019s Gale Crater is teeming with opals.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get it out of the way: bling iced out with precious gems from another planet sounds like the coldest flex in the solar system. But there\u2019s also scientific significance to the finding, which suggests that the area held vast reserves of water far more recently than we previously thought. That means the discovery could also force us to rewrite theories of ancient life on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists believe they\u2019ve discovered a cache of gemstones on the surface of Mars. No, we\u2019re not talking about diamonds \u2014 according to a study published last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets by a team of Arizona State University and NASA-affiliated researchers, the Red Planet\u2019s Gale Crater is teeming with opals. Let\u2019s get [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155011","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=155011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}