{"id":223311,"date":"2025-10-12T23:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/blue-planet-red-is-wrong-about-mars-but-its-surprisingly-poignant"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:03:53","slug":"blue-planet-red-is-wrong-about-mars-but-its-surprisingly-poignant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/blue-planet-red-is-wrong-about-mars-but-its-surprisingly-poignant","title":{"rendered":"Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars \u2014 but it\u2019s surprisingly poignant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-planet-red-is-wrong-about-mars-but-its-surprisingly-poignant.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian Cory Dobbs\u2019s documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there\u2019s some value in how it inadvertently documents a generation of otherwise-sensible scientists, says <b>Simon Ings<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/simon-ings\/\">Simon Ings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Cory Dobbs\u2019s documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there\u2019s some value in how it inadvertently documents a generation of otherwise-sensible scientists, says Simon Ings By Simon Ings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223311","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}