{"id":91259,"date":"2019-05-24T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/an-astounding-amount-of-water-has-been-discovered-beneath-the-martian-north-pole"},"modified":"2019-05-24T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:23:48","slug":"an-astounding-amount-of-water-has-been-discovered-beneath-the-martian-north-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/an-astounding-amount-of-water-has-been-discovered-beneath-the-martian-north-pole","title":{"rendered":"An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-astounding-amount-of-water-has-been-discovered-beneath-the-martian-north-pole2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a surprise even for us,\u201d Stefano Nerozzi, the lead author of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1029\/2019GL082114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paper<\/a> and a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, told Gizmodo in an email.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/an-astounding-amount-of-water-has-been-discovered-benea-1834978180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet. \u201cThis was a surprise even for us,\u201d Stefano Nerozzi, the lead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91259","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=91259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}