{"id":662824,"date":"2020-08-03T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662824"},"modified":"2020-08-03T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:01:54","slug":"early-mars-was-covered-in-ice-sheets-not-flowing-rivers-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662824","title":{"rendered":"Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars&#8217;s surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought, according to new research. The findings effectively throw cold water on the dominant &#8216;warm and wet ancient Mars&#8217; hypothesis, which postulates that rivers, rainfall and oceans once existed on the red planet.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/08\/200803120154.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers, researchers say<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars&#8217;s surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought, according to new research. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662824","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662824\/revisions"}],"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=662824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}