{"id":695374,"date":"2021-07-07T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=695374"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:24:19","slug":"changes-in-earths-orbit-enabled-the-emergence-of-complex-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=695374","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Earth&#039;s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Snowball Earth&#8217; is the most extreme climate event in Earth&#8217;s history, when it was completely engulfed in ice. The theory of its existence has faced two challenges &#8211; how life survived and variations in rock formations from the time implying changes to the climate cycle. New study shows that changes to Earth&#8217;s orbit caused the ice sheets to advance and retreat, providing ice-free &#8216;oases&#8217; for animal life and explaining variations in rock formations.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/07\/210707112419.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Changes in Earth&#8217;s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Snowball Earth&#8217; is the most extreme climate event in Earth&#8217;s history, when it was completely engulfed in ice. The theory of its existence has faced two challenges &#8211; how life&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-695374","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\/695374","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=695374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695374\/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=695374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}