{"id":167391,"date":"2023-07-12T19:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/building-blocks-of-mars-life-perseverance-rover-digs-up-diverse-set-of-organic-molecules-on-the-red-planet"},"modified":"2023-07-12T19:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T00:22:33","slug":"building-blocks-of-mars-life-perseverance-rover-digs-up-diverse-set-of-organic-molecules-on-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/building-blocks-of-mars-life-perseverance-rover-digs-up-diverse-set-of-organic-molecules-on-the-red-planet","title":{"rendered":"Building blocks of Mars life? Perseverance rover digs up diverse set of organic molecules on the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-blocks-of-mars-life-perseverance-rover-digs-up-diverse-set-of-organic-molecules-on-the-red-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover has found a diverse menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater, a new study reports.<\/p>\n<p>Organic compounds are molecules composed of carbon, and often include other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Previously, scientists had detected several types of organic molecules of Martian origin \u2014 in meteorites blasted off Mars by cosmic impacts that landed on Earth, and in Gale Crater on the Red Planet, which NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover has been exploring since 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover has found a diverse menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater, a new study reports. Organic compounds are molecules composed of carbon, and often include other elements such as hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Previously, scientists had detected several types of organic molecules of Martian origin \u2014 in meteorites blasted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167391","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}