{"id":196287,"date":"2024-09-16T23:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/gravity-mapping-detects-large-hidden-structures-under-surface-of-mars"},"modified":"2024-09-16T23:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:28:03","slug":"gravity-mapping-detects-large-hidden-structures-under-surface-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/gravity-mapping-detects-large-hidden-structures-under-surface-of-mars","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Mapping Detects Large Hidden Structures Under Surface of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravity-mapping-detects-large-hidden-structures-under-surface-of-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new analysis of Mars\u2019 gravitational field has revealed hidden structures buried beneath the remains of an ancient ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The work, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europlanet-society.org\/epsc2024-gravity-study-gives-insights-into-hidden-features-beneath-lost-ocean-of-mars-and-rising-olympus-mons\/\" class=\"\">presented this week at the Europlanetary Science Congress<\/a> in Berlin, could add to a growing body of evidence that suggests the Red Planet may not be as geologically \u201cdead,\u201d or inactive, as once believed.<\/p>\n<p>Overlaid with a thick and smooth layer of sediment which may have once been a seabed, the structures are significantly denser than their surroundings \u2014 though a more precise explanation of what they might be has so far eluded researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis of Mars\u2019 gravitational field has revealed hidden structures buried beneath the remains of an ancient ocean. The work, which was presented this week at the Europlanetary Science Congress in Berlin, could add to a growing body of evidence that suggests the Red Planet may not be as geologically \u201cdead,\u201d or inactive, as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196287","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=196287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}