{"id":194605,"date":"2024-08-15T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-clues-to-the-origins-of-life-record-breaking-mantle-rock-recovery-could-redefine-earths-history"},"modified":"2024-08-15T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:22:45","slug":"new-clues-to-the-origins-of-life-record-breaking-mantle-rock-recovery-could-redefine-earths-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-clues-to-the-origins-of-life-record-breaking-mantle-rock-recovery-could-redefine-earths-history","title":{"rendered":"New Clues to the Origins of Life: Record-Breaking Mantle Rock Recovery Could Redefine Earth\u2019s History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-clues-to-the-origins-of-life-record-breaking-mantle-rock-recovery-could-redefine-earths-history2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have successfully recovered the first long section of rocks originating from the Earth\u2019s mantle, the layer beneath the crust and the planet\u2019s largest component. These rocks are expected to shed light on the mantle\u2019s role in the origins of life on Earth, the volcanic activity that occurs when it melts, and its influence on the global cycles of crucial elements like carbon and hydrogen, according to the research team.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly continuous 1,268 meters (4160 feet) of mantle rock was recovered from a \u201ctectonic window,\u201d a section of the seabed where rocks from the mantle were exposed along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, during Expedition 399 \u201cBuilding Blocks of Life, Atlantis Massif\u201d of the ocean drilling vessel <em>JOIDES Resolution<\/em> in Spring 2023.<\/p>\n<p>With attempts dating back to the early 1960s, the recovery was a record-breaking achievement led by the International Ocean Discovery Program, an international marine research consortium of more than 20 countries that retrieves cores\u2014cylindrical samples of sediment and rock\u2014from the ocean floor to study Earth\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have successfully recovered the first long section of rocks originating from the Earth\u2019s mantle, the layer beneath the crust and the planet\u2019s largest component. These rocks are expected to shed light on the mantle\u2019s role in the origins of life on Earth, the volcanic activity that occurs when it melts, and its influence on [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194605","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=194605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}