{"id":193455,"date":"2024-07-24T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T13:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/this-plant-is-so-extreme-scientists-think-it-could-thrive-on-mars"},"modified":"2024-07-24T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T13:26:16","slug":"this-plant-is-so-extreme-scientists-think-it-could-thrive-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/this-plant-is-so-extreme-scientists-think-it-could-thrive-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"This Plant Is So Extreme Scientists Think It Could Thrive on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-plant-is-so-extreme-scientists-think-it-could-thrive-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mosses are among Earth\u2019s great terraformers, turning barren rock into fertile soils, and now a team of scientists is proposing these non-vascular plants could do the same on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether we <em>should<\/em> introduce life from Earth onto our red neighbor is another question \u2013 we don\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cane-toads-are-eating-the-dung-beetles-that-keep-australia-clean\">have a great<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/giant-study-warns-invasive-alien-species-are-spreading-out-of-control\">track record<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-re-losing-unique-flowers-around-the-world-as-invasive-plants-take-over\">this on our own planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>if<\/em> we decide it\u2019s worth messing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tomatoes-peas-and-8-other-crops-have-been-grown-in-mars-equivalent-soil\">soil on Mars<\/a> to create a second home for us Earthlings, ecologist Xiaoshuang Li and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have a candidate that they think should do just the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosses are among Earth\u2019s great terraformers, turning barren rock into fertile soils, and now a team of scientists is proposing these non-vascular plants could do the same on Mars. Whether we should introduce life from Earth onto our red neighbor is another question \u2013 we don\u2019t have a great track record with this on our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1507,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-environmental","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193455","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=193455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}