{"id":9128,"date":"2018-06-07T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T21:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2018-06-10T14:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T21:33:25","slug":"life-on-mars-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/07\/life-on-mars-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Life On Mars Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2018\/06\/07\/life-mars-building-blocks-life-discovered-3-billion-year-old-organic-matter\/681597002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from USA Today<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\">NASA Mars rover discovers \u2018building blocks\u2019 for life: 3-billion-year-old organic matter<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/staff\/782\/doyle-rice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Doyle Rice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v--IqqusnNQ\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">The &#8220;building blocks&#8221; for life have been discovered in 3-billion-year-old organic matter on Mars, NASA scientists announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Researchers cannot yet say whether their discovery stems from life or a more mundane geological process.\u00a0 However, \u201cwe\u2019re in a really good position to move forward looking for signs of life,&#8221;\u00a0 said <a href=\"https:\/\/science.gsfc.nasa.gov\/sed\/bio\/jennifer.l.eigenbrode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-track-label=\"story pages|news|inline|intext|n\/a\">Jennifer Eigenbrode<\/a>, a NASA biogeochemist and lead author of a study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal <em>Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The findings were also remarkable\u00a0in that they\u00a0showed\u00a0that organic material can be preserved for billions of years on the harsh Martian surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The material was discovered\u00a0by the Mars Curiosity rover, which has been collecting data on the Red Planet since August 2012.\u00a0The organic molecules were found in Gale Crater \u2014 believed to once contain a shallow lake the size of Florida&#8217;s Lake Okeechobee.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2018\/06\/07\/life-mars-building-blocks-life-discovered-3-billion-year-old-organic-matter\/681597002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at USAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from USA Today NASA Mars rover discovers \u2018building blocks\u2019 for life: 3-billion-year-old organic matter by\u00a0Doyle Rice The &#8220;building blocks&#8221; for life have been discovered in 3-billion-year-old organic matter on Mars, NASA scientists announced Thursday. Researchers cannot yet say whether their discovery stems from life or a more mundane geological process.\u00a0 However, \u201cwe\u2019re in a really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}