{"id":707066,"date":"2021-11-03T07:05:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707066"},"modified":"2021-11-03T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:05:38","slug":"extreme-environments-provide-clues-to-extraterrestrial-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707066","title":{"rendered":"Extreme environments provide clues to extraterrestrial life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, the NASA Astrobiology Institute funded Michigan State University geomicrobiologist Matt Schrenk&#8217;s lab to study life in the extreme environment of groundwater in a highly alkaline aquifer near Lower Lake, California. Because similar environments occur in space\u2014in the subsurface of Mars and in the oceans of Saturn&#8217;s icy moon Enceladus\u2014the microorganisms found in this aquifer, and their behavior, may provide insight into potential extraterrestrial life.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-11-extreme-environments-clues-extraterrestrial-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Extreme environments provide clues to extraterrestrial life<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past decade, the NASA Astrobiology Institute funded Michigan State University geomicrobiologist Matt Schrenk&#8217;s lab to study life in the extreme environment of groundwater in a highly alkaline aquifer&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-707066","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\/707066","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=707066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707066\/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=707066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}