{"id":34059,"date":"2017-02-02T16:44:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/meteorite-reveals-2-billion-years-of-volcanic-activity-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:48:09","slug":"meteorite-reveals-2-billion-years-of-volcanic-activity-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/meteorite-reveals-2-billion-years-of-volcanic-activity-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite reveals 2 billion years of volcanic activity on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meteorite-reveals-2-billion-years-of-volcanic-activity-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feb. 1 (UPI) \u2014 Mars may be home to some of the oldest volcanoes in the solar system. New evidence suggests the Red Planet has been home to volcanic activity for at least 2 billion years.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence is a small Martian meteorite discovered in Africa in 2012. The rock was named Northwest Africa 7635.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists has studied many Martian meteorites over the years. Most arrived on Earth\u2019s surface roughly 1 million years ago, when a large object collided with Mars, dislodging significant amounts of rock \u2014 much of it volcanic.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/02\/01\/Meteorite-reveals-2-billion-years-of-volcanic-activity-on-Mars\/4891485977747\/?src=fb\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/02\/01\/Meteorite-reveals...47\/?src=fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 1 (UPI) \u2014 Mars may be home to some of the oldest volcanoes in the solar system. New evidence suggests the Red Planet has been home to volcanic activity for at least 2 billion years. The evidence is a small Martian meteorite discovered in Africa in 2012. The rock was named Northwest Africa 7635. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34059","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65221,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34059\/revisions\/65221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}