{"id":703580,"date":"2021-09-30T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=703580"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:54:03","slug":"how-low-did-it-go-study-seeks-to-settle-debate-about-oxygen-in-earths-early-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=703580","title":{"rendered":"How low did it go? Study seeks to settle debate about oxygen in Earth&#039;s early atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long debated how much molecular oxygen was in Earth&#8217;s early atmosphere. About 2.4 billion years ago, there was a rise in oxygen that transformed Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and biosphere, eventually making life like ours possible. This transition is called the &#8220;Great Oxidation Event.&#8221; But how much oxygen was in the atmosphere before this time?&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-debate-oxygen-earth-early-atmosphere.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How low did it go? Study seeks to settle debate about oxygen in Earth&#8217;s early atmosphere<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have long debated how much molecular oxygen was in Earth&#8217;s early atmosphere. About 2.4 billion years ago, there was a rise in oxygen that transformed Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and biosphere,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703580","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=703580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703580\/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=703580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}