{"id":232720,"date":"2026-03-07T03:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/a-mysterious-mineral-on-mars-may-rewrite-the-planets-geologic-history"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:36:44","slug":"a-mysterious-mineral-on-mars-may-rewrite-the-planets-geologic-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/a-mysterious-mineral-on-mars-may-rewrite-the-planets-geologic-history","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Mineral on Mars May Rewrite the Planet\u2019s Geologic History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mysterious-mineral-on-mars-may-rewrite-the-planets-geologic-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100\u00b0C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest geothermal processes altered ancient sulfate deposits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100\u00b0C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest geothermal processes altered ancient sulfate deposits.<\/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-232720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232720","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=232720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}