{"id":233946,"date":"2026-03-24T03:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mysterious-structure-on-mars-looks-uncannily-like-an-ancient-egyptian-pyramid"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:24:58","slug":"mysterious-structure-on-mars-looks-uncannily-like-an-ancient-egyptian-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mysterious-structure-on-mars-looks-uncannily-like-an-ancient-egyptian-pyramid","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Structure on Mars Looks Uncannily Like an Ancient Egyptian Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-structure-on-mars-looks-uncannily-like-an-ancient-egyptian-pyramid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be tempting to assume there\u2019s nothing much of note happening on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Mars<\/a>, but that dusty rusty planet has a lot of interesting stuff going on.<\/p>\n<p>Most of it has to do with rocks. Mars has a lot of rocks. In fact, Mars has so many rocks that have undergone all sorts of weathering over the eons that, occasionally, it manages to produce something that looks a bit like an artificial or biological structure, if you squint.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-confirm-monkeys-do-not-have-the-time-to-write-shakespeare\">monkeys and typewriters<\/a>. We may not get Shakespeare, but every once in a while, we might see some rocks that look enough like bugs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-entomologist-is-trying-to-convince-us-that-mars-is-covered-in-bugs\">fool an entomologist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be tempting to assume there\u2019s nothing much of note happening on Mars, but that dusty rusty planet has a lot of interesting stuff going on. Most of it has to do with rocks. Mars has a lot of rocks. In fact, Mars has so many rocks that have undergone all sorts of weathering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233946","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=233946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}