{"id":160121,"date":"2023-03-13T02:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/strange-circular-sand-dunes-discovered-on-mars"},"modified":"2023-03-13T02:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:23:13","slug":"strange-circular-sand-dunes-discovered-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/strange-circular-sand-dunes-discovered-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Strange Circular Sand Dunes Discovered on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-circular-sand-dunes-discovered-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sand dunes of many shapes and sizes are common on Mars. In this example, the dunes are almost perfectly circular, which is unusual. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Sand dunes of many shapes and sizes are common on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Iron oxide is prevalent in Mars\u2019 surface resulting in its reddish color and its nickname \u201cThe Red Planet.\u201d Mars\u2019 name comes from the Roman god of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sand dunes of many shapes and sizes are common on Mars. In this example, the dunes are almost perfectly circular, which is unusual. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona. Sand dunes of many shapes and sizes are common on Mars. Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160121","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}