{"id":190641,"date":"2024-06-05T06:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-intrigued-by-almost-perfectly-circular-pit-on-the-surface-of-mars"},"modified":"2024-06-05T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:23:19","slug":"scientists-intrigued-by-almost-perfectly-circular-pit-on-the-surface-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-intrigued-by-almost-perfectly-circular-pit-on-the-surface-of-mars","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Intrigued By Almost Perfectly Circular Pit on the Surface of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-intrigued-by-almost-perfectly-circular-pit-on-the-surface-of-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link :<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has discovered another intriguing formation on the planet\u2019s barren surface.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/167167\/whats-under-this-hole-on-the-surface-of-mars\/\" class=\"\">spotted by <i>Universe Today<\/i><\/a>, the spacecraft captured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uahirise.org\/hipod\/ESP_075251_1775\" class=\"\">this image<\/a> of a satisfyingly circular pit \u2014 and what its dark, yawning entrance leads to remains a question high on the minds of Mars scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The image, \u201cacquired to determine if any underlying void \u2026 and associated faults\u201d were in the region, was taken with the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, a powerful lens capable of detailing the Martian surface in both visible and near-infrared light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link : NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has discovered another intriguing formation on the planet\u2019s barren surface. As spotted by Universe Today, the spacecraft captured this image of a satisfyingly circular pit \u2014 and what its dark, yawning entrance leads to remains a question high on the minds of Mars scientists. The image, \u201cacquired to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190641","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}