{"id":196916,"date":"2024-10-02T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/follow-the-salt-to-find-life-on-mars"},"modified":"2024-10-02T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:22:23","slug":"follow-the-salt-to-find-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/follow-the-salt-to-find-life-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Salt to Find Life on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/follow-the-salt-to-find-life-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong places. The Viking life detection experiments might have inadvertently killed indigenous Martian life by applying too much water. Instead we should \u201cfollow the salt\u201d to find life on Mars! See my blog on BigThink (with link to Nature Astronomy paper), Weblink through my webpage:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Posted on Big Think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong places. The Viking life detection experiments might have inadvertently killed indigenous Martian life by applying too much water. Instead we should \u201cfollow the salt\u201d to find life on Mars! See my blog on BigThink (with link to Nature Astronomy paper), Weblink through my webpage: Posted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196916","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\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}