{"id":79388,"date":"2018-06-10T00:57:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T07:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/breakthrough-in-search-for-martian-life-as-curiosity-finds-organic-matter-and-seasonal-methane"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:06:24","slug":"breakthrough-in-search-for-martian-life-as-curiosity-finds-organic-matter-and-seasonal-methane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/breakthrough-in-search-for-martian-life-as-curiosity-finds-organic-matter-and-seasonal-methane","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in search for Martian life as Curiosity finds organic matter and seasonal methane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2017\/09\/06\/7644524444368547958\/1024x576_MP4_7644524444368547958.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>What did they find out?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/nasa\/index.html\" id=\"mol-a55bb5a0-6a7c-11e8-9baf-a74aadb4ed40\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s Curiosity rover has uncovered the best evidence yet that life may have once existed on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>In two separate studies on data collected by the Mars rover over the last few years, scientists identified an abundant source of organic matter in an ancient lakebed, and traced some of the planet\u2019s atmospheric methane to its roots.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking results will help to guide the search for microbial life and improve our understanding of seasonal processes on Mars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5818179\/Breakthrough-search-Martian-life-Curiosity-finds-organic-matter-seasonal-methane.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5818179\/Break...thane.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did they find out? NASA\u2019s Curiosity rover has uncovered the best evidence yet that life may have once existed on Mars. In two separate studies on data collected by the Mars rover over the last few years, scientists identified an abundant source of organic matter in an ancient lakebed, and traced some of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79388","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79502,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79388\/revisions\/79502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}