{"id":197597,"date":"2024-10-13T13:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/organic-matter-on-mars-was-formed-from-atmospheric-formaldehyde"},"modified":"2024-10-13T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T18:23:17","slug":"organic-matter-on-mars-was-formed-from-atmospheric-formaldehyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/organic-matter-on-mars-was-formed-from-atmospheric-formaldehyde","title":{"rendered":"Organic Matter on Mars was formed from Atmospheric Formaldehyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/organic-matter-on-mars-was-formed-from-atmospheric-formaldehyde.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a Martian atmospheric evolution model to propose a new theory about Mars\u2019s past. Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid water existed there around 3 to 4 billion years ago. Where there is water, there is usually life. In their quest to answer the burning question about life on Mars, researchers at Tohoku University created a detailed model of organic matter production in the ancient Martian atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Organic matter refers to the remains of living things such as plants and animals, or the byproduct of certain chemical reactions.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, the stable carbon isotope ratio (13C\/12C) found in organic matter provides valuable clues about how these building blocks of life were originally formed, giving scientists a window into the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a Martian atmospheric evolution model to propose a new theory about Mars\u2019s past. Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid water existed there around 3 to 4 billion years ago. Where there is water, there is usually life. In their quest to answer the burning question [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,19,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-chemistry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197597","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}