{"id":158643,"date":"2023-02-21T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/pass-the-nacl-scientists-create-new-types-of-salt-crystals-that-could-exist-on-europa"},"modified":"2023-02-21T06:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:22:48","slug":"pass-the-nacl-scientists-create-new-types-of-salt-crystals-that-could-exist-on-europa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/pass-the-nacl-scientists-create-new-types-of-salt-crystals-that-could-exist-on-europa","title":{"rendered":"Pass the NaCl: Scientists create new types of salt crystals that could exist on Europa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f-SX2rrC7a4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life is Europa, a moon of Jupiter that\u2019s covered with a sheet of salty ice. But what kind of salt is there? Researchers say they\u2019ve created a new kind of salt crystal that could fill the bill, and perhaps raise hopes for finding life under the ice.<\/p>\n<p>This salt crystal is both exotic and common: It\u2019s actually table salt \u2014 also known as sodium chloride, with the chemical formula NaCl \u2014 but bound up with water molecules to form a hydrate that doesn\u2019t exist naturally on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life is Europa, a moon of Jupiter that\u2019s covered with a sheet of salty ice. But what kind of salt is there? Researchers say they\u2019ve created a new kind of salt crystal that could fill the bill, and perhaps raise hopes for finding life under the ice. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158643","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=158643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}