{"id":199045,"date":"2024-11-09T05:19:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/at-2-2-billion-years-old-this-is-the-oldest-impact-crater-on-earth"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:19:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:19:36","slug":"at-2-2-billion-years-old-this-is-the-oldest-impact-crater-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/at-2-2-billion-years-old-this-is-the-oldest-impact-crater-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"At 2.2 Billion Years Old, This Is The Oldest Impact Crater On Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/at-2-2-billion-years-old-this-is-the-oldest-impact-crater-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet, leaving a massive scar.<\/p>\n<p>Around 200 million years older than any other site like it on the planet\u2019s surface, the so-called Yarrabubba impact structure is located in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Although the impact site is the oldest found to date, finding it was not easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet, leaving a massive scar. Around 200 million years older than any other site like it on the planet\u2019s surface, the so-called Yarrabubba impact structure is located in Australia. Although the impact site is the oldest found to date, finding it was not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199045","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}