{"id":28829,"date":"2016-08-11T02:40:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T09:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/science-explained-the-possibility-of-life-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:58:51","slug":"science-explained-the-possibility-of-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/science-explained-the-possibility-of-life-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Science Explained: The Possibility of Life on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-explained-the-possibility-of-life-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/227827298&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Where there is water, there is life. This is a statement that has been reaffirmed over and over again. Whether it is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/B9780123739445002789\" target=\"_blank\">acidic waters surrounding volcanoes<\/a> or in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22329834.200-first-samples-of-antarctic-lake-reveal-thriving-life.html#.VS2ABPnF_Xs\" target=\"_blank\">dark and frozen wastes of the icy Antarctic<\/a>, wherever we find liquid water, we find life. That\u2019s what makes one of <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/curiosity-rover-finds-evidence-of-liquid-water-on-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">the most recent finds by NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover<\/a> so amazing\u2014Evidence of liquid water on Mars. And even more recently (this month, in fact), <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/nasa-breakthrough-liquid-water-flows-on-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA announced<\/a> that it had confirmed evidence of water flowing on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, this \u201cflowing water\u201d is really more of a trickle (damp soil, if you will), but the find is still exciting for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>To begin, as early as 2002, we confirmed that there was<a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2002\/28may_marsice\/\" target=\"_blank\"> ice on the Red Planet<\/a>. Soon after, we found that Mars has more than just a little ice.<a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/mars-has-glaciers-and-they-contain-enough-water-to-cover-the-entire-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\"> It has glaciers<\/a>. Ultimately, this frozen ice contains enough water to cover the<em> entire planet<\/em> in a meter of water.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/science-explained-the-possibility-of-life-on-mars\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/science-explained-the-possibility-of-life-on-mars\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where there is water, there is life. This is a statement that has been reaffirmed over and over again. Whether it is in the acidic waters surrounding volcanoes or in the dark and frozen wastes of the icy Antarctic, wherever we find liquid water, we find life. That\u2019s what makes one of the most recent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50048,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829\/revisions\/50048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}