{"id":31698,"date":"2016-11-05T03:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/curiosity-has-spotted-a-weird-metallic-meteorite-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:05:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:05:18","slug":"curiosity-has-spotted-a-weird-metallic-meteorite-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/curiosity-has-spotted-a-weird-metallic-meteorite-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Has Spotted a Weird Metallic Meteorite on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/curiosity-has-spotted-a-weird-metallic-meteorite-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover stumbled across a peculiar-looking metallic meteorite last week, while climbing the slopes of Mars\u2019 Mount Sharp.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorites are pretty common on the Red Planet due to its thin atmosphere and proximity to the asteroid belt. But this little meteorite is unusually smooth \u2014 almost like someone\u2019s buffed it.<\/p>\n<p>It also has several deep grooves, which suggests that it might have been molten at some point in time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/curiosity-has-spotted-a-weird-metallic-meteorite-on-mars\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/curiosity-has-spotted-a-weird-me...te-on-mars<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover stumbled across a peculiar-looking metallic meteorite last week, while climbing the slopes of Mars\u2019 Mount Sharp. Meteorites are pretty common on the Red Planet due to its thin atmosphere and proximity to the asteroid belt. But this little meteorite is unusually smooth \u2014 almost like someone\u2019s buffed it. It also has several [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31698","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=31698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65844,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31698\/revisions\/65844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}