{"id":181447,"date":"2024-01-26T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T22:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/nasas-perseverance-rover-confirms-presence-of-ancient-lake-on-mars-and-it-may-hold-clues-to-past-life"},"modified":"2024-01-26T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T22:22:39","slug":"nasas-perseverance-rover-confirms-presence-of-ancient-lake-on-mars-and-it-may-hold-clues-to-past-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/nasas-perseverance-rover-confirms-presence-of-ancient-lake-on-mars-and-it-may-hold-clues-to-past-life","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover confirms presence of ancient lake on Mars and it may hold clues to past life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-perseverance-rover-confirms-presence-of-ancient-lake-on-mars-and-it-may-hold-clues-to-past-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evidence of ancient lake sediments at the base of Mars\u2019 Jezero Crater offer new hope for finding traces of life in samples collected by NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover.<\/p>\n<p>Perseverance touched down on Feb. 18, 2021 inside the Red Planet\u2019s 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, which is believed to have once hosted a large lake and river delta. The rover has been scouring the crater in search of signs of past life and collecting and caching dozens of samples along the way for a possible future return to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence of ancient lake sediments at the base of Mars\u2019 Jezero Crater offer new hope for finding traces of life in samples collected by NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover. Perseverance touched down on Feb. 18, 2021 inside the Red Planet\u2019s 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, which is believed to have once hosted a large lake and river [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181447","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}