{"id":70264,"date":"2017-06-07T21:48:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T04:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/study-estimates-amount-of-water-needed-to-carve-martian-valleys"},"modified":"2017-06-07T21:48:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T04:48:37","slug":"study-estimates-amount-of-water-needed-to-carve-martian-valleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/study-estimates-amount-of-water-needed-to-carve-martian-valleys","title":{"rendered":"Study estimates amount of water needed to carve Martian valleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-estimates-amount-of-water-needed-to-carve-martian-valleys.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study led by Northern Illinois University geography professor Wei Luo calculates the amount of water needed to carve the ancient network of valleys on Mars and concludes the Red Planet\u2019s surface was once much more watery than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active hydrologic cycle, with water evaporating from an ancient ocean, returning to the surface as rainfall and eroding the planet\u2019s extensive network of valleys.<\/p>\n<p>Satellites orbiting Mars and rovers on its surface have provided scientists with convincing evidence that water helped shape the planet\u2019s landscape billions of years ago. But questions have lingered over how much water actually flowed on the planet, and the ocean hypothesis has been hotly debated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-06-amount-martian-valleys.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;06-amount-martian-valleys.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study led by Northern Illinois University geography professor Wei Luo calculates the amount of water needed to carve the ancient network of valleys on Mars and concludes the Red Planet\u2019s surface was once much more watery than previously thought. The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70264","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=70264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}