{"id":232517,"date":"2026-03-04T01:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/asteroid-impacts-could-launch-living-microbes-from-mars"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:20:20","slug":"asteroid-impacts-could-launch-living-microbes-from-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/asteroid-impacts-could-launch-living-microbes-from-mars","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Impacts Could Launch Living Microbes From Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-impacts-could-launch-living-microbes-from-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space\u2014opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space\u2014opening the door to interplanetary life transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-biological","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232517","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=232517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}