{"id":219190,"date":"2025-08-01T04:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/nasa-just-found-perfect-spheres-on-mars-and-no-one-knows-exactly-why"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:20:52","slug":"nasa-just-found-perfect-spheres-on-mars-and-no-one-knows-exactly-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/nasa-just-found-perfect-spheres-on-mars-and-no-one-knows-exactly-why","title":{"rendered":"NASA Just Found Perfect Spheres on Mars \u2014 And No One Knows Exactly Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-just-found-perfect-spheres-on-mars-and-no-one-knows-exactly-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perseverance has uncovered unusual, basalt-rich Martian spherules that likely formed in violent explosions\u2014either from meteors or lava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perseverance has uncovered unusual, basalt-rich Martian spherules that likely formed in violent explosions\u2014either from meteors or lava.<\/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-219190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219190","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=219190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}