{"id":80753,"date":"2018-07-19T06:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/martian-atmosphere-behaves-as-one"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:22:24","slug":"martian-atmosphere-behaves-as-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/martian-atmosphere-behaves-as-one","title":{"rendered":"Martian atmosphere behaves as one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/martian-atmosphere-behaves-as-one2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research using a decade of data from ESA\u2019s Mars Express has found clear signs of the complex Martian atmosphere acting as a single, interconnected system, with processes occurring at low and mid levels significantly affecting those seen higher up.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding the Martian <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atmosphere\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atmosphere<\/a> is a key topic in planetary science, from its current status to its past history. Mars\u2019 atmosphere continuously leaks out to space, and is a crucial factor in the planet\u2019s past, present, and future habitability \u2013 or lack of it. The planet has lost the majority of its once much denser and wetter atmosphere, causing it to evolve into the dry, arid world we see today.<\/p>\n<p>However, the tenuous atmosphere Mars has retained remains complex, and scientists are working to understand if and how the processes within it are connected over space and time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-07-martian-atmosphere.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;07-martian-atmosphere.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research using a decade of data from ESA\u2019s Mars Express has found clear signs of the complex Martian atmosphere acting as a single, interconnected system, with processes occurring at low and mid levels significantly affecting those seen higher up. Understanding the Martian atmosphere is a key topic in planetary science, from its current status [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80753","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}