{"id":51837,"date":"2015-09-29T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/us_newswr_life_on_mars_nasa_says_its_a_possibility_after_evidence_of_briny_\/"},"modified":"2015-09-29T04:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T04:00:53","slug":"us_newswr_life_on_mars_nasa_says_its_a_possibility_after_evidence_of_briny_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51837","title":{"rendered":"(US News+WR) Life on Mars? NASA Says It&#39;s a Possibility after evidence of briny water found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of life on Mars just became a little more realistic: Mars has a summer season when salty streams of water flow across the surface, before freezing again in winter, NASA announced on Monday, indicating the red planet could currently have life on its surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur quest on Mars has been to \u201d\u02dcfollow the water,\u2019 in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we\u2019ve long suspected,\u201d\u009d said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. \u201cThis is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water &#8212; albeit briny &#8212; is flowing today on the surface of Mars.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2015\/09\/28\/nasa-water-means-life-on-mars-is-possible\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of life on Mars just became a little more realistic: Mars has a summer season when salty streams of water flow across the surface, before freezing again in winter, NASA announced on Monday, indicating the red planet could<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51837\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}