{"id":188131,"date":"2024-04-26T00:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/orbiter-spots-spiders-on-surface-of-mars"},"modified":"2024-04-26T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:22:33","slug":"orbiter-spots-spiders-on-surface-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/orbiter-spots-spiders-on-surface-of-mars","title":{"rendered":"Orbiter Spots \u201cSpiders\u201d on Surface of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/orbiter-spots-spiders-on-surface-of-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a real spider 3,300 feet across.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s Mars Express orbiter has <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-04-spider-phenomenon-mars.html\" class=\"\">spotted \u201cspiders<\/a>\u201d on the Red Planet\u2019s southern polar region.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re not the arachnids we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/740\/transcript\" class=\"\">fear<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/ucanr.edu\/blogs\/blogcore\/postdetail.cfm?postnum=29603\" class=\"\">adore<\/a> back on Earth \u2014 they\u2019re the result of a complex geological process that causes carbon dioxide to sublimate, digging up darker material from below the surface during the planet\u2019s spring.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re a whole lot larger than the spiders you\u2019re used to, measuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/spiders-on-mars-explained-dry-ice.html\" class=\"\">up to 3,300 feet across<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a real spider 3,300 feet across. The European Space Agency\u2019s Mars Express orbiter has spotted \u201cspiders\u201d on the Red Planet\u2019s southern polar region. But they\u2019re not the arachnids we fear or adore back on Earth \u2014 they\u2019re the result of a complex geological process that causes carbon dioxide to sublimate, digging up darker material [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188131","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}