{"id":176744,"date":"2023-11-25T18:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T00:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/scientists-say-there-may-be-life-under-mercurys-salt-glaciers"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T00:23:38","slug":"scientists-say-there-may-be-life-under-mercurys-salt-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/scientists-say-there-may-be-life-under-mercurys-salt-glaciers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say There May Be Life Under Mercury\u2019s Salt Glaciers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-there-may-be-life-under-mercurys-salt-glaciers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The planet Mercury seems like a place inhospitable to life, with surface temperatures reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mercury\/facts\/\" class=\"\">a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit<\/a> due to its extremely close proximity to the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>But new research suggests that there are regions on the Solar System\u2019s smallest planet that may have the right conditions for biological life to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) in Arizona say they\u2019ve found evidence of salt glaciers on the planet\u2019s surface, regions that are similar to extremely harsh and salt-rich environments on Earth where life still finds a way to exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planet Mercury seems like a place inhospitable to life, with surface temperatures reaching a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit due to its extremely close proximity to the Sun. But new research suggests that there are regions on the Solar System\u2019s smallest planet that may have the right conditions for biological life to survive. Scientists at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176744","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}