{"id":484212,"date":"2018-06-07T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cc44bfae5e4125b37c35e56f0babcdee"},"modified":"2018-06-07T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T21:05:00","slug":"nasas-curiosity-rover-finds-chemical-building-blocks-for-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=484212","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Rover Finds Chemical Building Blocks For Life On Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/06\/07\/curiosity_wide-0fb9ed3e211c68184804fb243affdeea286614bf.jpg?s=600' alt='Two rock samples taken by NASA's Curiosity rover were found to contain organic molecules.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Scientists can&#8217;t say whether there is, or ever was, life on the Red Planet. But two Martian rock samples contained organic molecules \u2014 which contain carbon, the chemical element central to life.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=617235884' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists can&#8217;t say whether there is, or ever was, life on the Red Planet. But two Martian rock samples contained organic molecules &mdash; which contain carbon, the chemical element central to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484223,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484212\/revisions\/484223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}