{"id":87757,"date":"2019-02-14T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/we-just-got-evidence-that-mars-could-have-volcanic-activity"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:02:59","slug":"we-just-got-evidence-that-mars-could-have-volcanic-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/we-just-got-evidence-that-mars-could-have-volcanic-activity","title":{"rendered":"We Just Got Evidence That Mars Could Have Volcanic Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-just-got-evidence-that-mars-could-have-volcanic-activity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study shows that Mars may very well be volcanically active. Nobody\u2019s seen direct evidence of volcanism; no eruptions or magma or anything like that. Rather, the proof is in the water.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Mars was a much warmer and wetter place. Now, Mars is still home to lots of water, mostly as vapor and ice. But in August 2018, a <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6401\/490\">study<\/a> published in <em>Science<\/em> showed a 20-km-wide (12-mile-wide) lake of liquid water underneath solid ice at the Martian South Pole.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of that study suggested that the water was probably kept in liquid state by the pressure from above, and by dissolved salt content.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-evidence-that-mars-is-still-volcanically-active\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-evidence-that-mars-is-s...lly-active<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that Mars may very well be volcanically active. Nobody\u2019s seen direct evidence of volcanism; no eruptions or magma or anything like that. Rather, the proof is in the water. In the past, Mars was a much warmer and wetter place. Now, Mars is still home to lots of water, mostly as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87757","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}