{"id":17908,"date":"2015-09-28T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-todays-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:28","slug":"nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-todays-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-todays-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today\u2019s Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-todays-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New findings from NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These darkish streaks appear to ebb and flow over time. They darken and appear to flow down steep slopes during warm seasons, and then fade in cooler seasons. They appear in several locations on Mars when temperatures are above minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 23 Celsius), and disappear at colder times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur quest on Mars has been to \u2018follow the water,\u2019 in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we\u2019ve long suspected,\u201d said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. \u201cThis is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water \u2014 albeit briny \u2014 is flowing today on the surface of Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New findings from NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These darkish streaks appear to ebb and flow over time. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69454,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions\/69454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}