{"id":181334,"date":"2024-01-24T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/methane-pulses-on-mars-possibly-driven-by-atmospheric-pressure-changes"},"modified":"2024-01-24T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:23:07","slug":"methane-pulses-on-mars-possibly-driven-by-atmospheric-pressure-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/methane-pulses-on-mars-possibly-driven-by-atmospheric-pressure-changes","title":{"rendered":"Methane pulses on Mars possibly driven by atmospheric pressure changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/methane-pulses-on-mars-possibly-driven-by-atmospheric-pressure-changes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into Mars\u2019s atmosphere; knowing when and where to look for methane can help the Curiosity rover search for signs of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding Mars\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/methane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">methane<\/a> variations has been highlighted by NASA\u2019s Curiosity team as the next key step towards figuring out where it comes from,\u201d said John Ortiz, a graduate student at Los Alamos National Laboratory who led the research team. \u201cThere are several challenges associated with meeting that goal, and a big one is knowing what time of a given sol (Martian day) is best for Curiosity to perform an atmospheric sampling experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper was <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2023JE008043\">published<\/a> Jan. 22 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into Mars\u2019s atmosphere; knowing when and where to look for methane can help the Curiosity rover search for signs of life. \u201cUnderstanding Mars\u2019s methane variations has been highlighted by NASA\u2019s Curiosity team as the next [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181334","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=181334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}