{"id":211627,"date":"2025-04-17T02:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/crystal-clues-on-mars-point-to-watery-and-possibly-life-supporting-past"},"modified":"2025-04-17T02:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:13:50","slug":"crystal-clues-on-mars-point-to-watery-and-possibly-life-supporting-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/crystal-clues-on-mars-point-to-watery-and-possibly-life-supporting-past","title":{"rendered":"Crystal clues on Mars point to watery and possibly life-supporting past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crystal-clues-on-mars-point-to-watery-and-possibly-life-supporting-past2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A QUT-led study analyzing data from NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover has uncovered compelling evidence of multiple mineral-forming events just beneath the Martian surface\u2014findings that bring scientists one step closer to answering the profound question: did life ever exist on Mars?<\/p>\n<p>The QUT research team led by Dr. Michael Jones, from the Central Analytical Research Facility and the School of Chemistry and Physics, includes Associate Professor David Flannery, Associate Professor Christoph Schrank, Brendan Orenstein and Peter Nemere, together with researchers from North America and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, \u201cIn-situ crystallographic mapping constrains sulfate precipitation and timing in Jezero crater, Mars\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adt3048\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A QUT-led study analyzing data from NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover has uncovered compelling evidence of multiple mineral-forming events just beneath the Martian surface\u2014findings that bring scientists one step closer to answering the profound question: did life ever exist on Mars? The QUT research team led by Dr. Michael Jones, from the Central Analytical Research Facility and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211627","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}