{"id":180064,"date":"2024-01-08T01:25:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T07:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/crystal-studded-space-rock-found-in-the-sahara-may-rewrite-the-history-of-the-early-solar-system"},"modified":"2024-01-08T01:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T07:25:52","slug":"crystal-studded-space-rock-found-in-the-sahara-may-rewrite-the-history-of-the-early-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/crystal-studded-space-rock-found-in-the-sahara-may-rewrite-the-history-of-the-early-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Crystal-studded space rock found in the Sahara may rewrite the history of the early solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crystal-studded-space-rock-found-in-the-sahara-may-rewrite-the-history-of-the-early-solar-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published at <\/em><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/\"><em>The Conversation.<\/em><\/a><em> The publication contributed the article to <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a>\u2019s <\/em><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/tag\/expert-voices\" data-before-rewrite-redirect=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/topics\/expert-voices\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/tag\/expert-voices\"><em>Expert Voices: Op-Ed &amp; Insights<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com\u2019s Expert Voices: Op-Ed &amp; Insights. In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria.<\/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-180064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180064","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=180064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}