{"id":159758,"date":"2023-03-07T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/life-may-not-have-been-possible-on-earth-without-jupiter"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:28:50","slug":"life-may-not-have-been-possible-on-earth-without-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/life-may-not-have-been-possible-on-earth-without-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"Life may not have been possible on Earth without Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-may-not-have-been-possible-on-earth-without-jupiter3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New simulations paint a picture of our solar system resembling an ornate clock. \u201cThrow more gears into the mix and it all breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new experiment shed new light on the role Jupiter has played in the evolution of life on Earth. In a series of simulations, scientists showed that an Earth-like planet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter would be able to alter Earth\u2019s orbit and push it out of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Such an event would extricate Earth from its life support system, the Sun, and would therefore wipe out all life on our planet.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the experiment highlighted how the solar system\u2019s largest gas giant, Jupiter, plays a crucial role in stabilizing the orbits of its surrounding planets. The hypothetical scenario was considered as part of a UC Riverside experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New simulations paint a picture of our solar system resembling an ornate clock. \u201cThrow more gears into the mix and it all breaks.\u201d A new experiment shed new light on the role Jupiter has played in the evolution of life on Earth. In a series of simulations, scientists showed that an Earth-like planet orbiting between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159758","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=159758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}