{"id":716996,"date":"2022-02-18T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T10:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=716996"},"modified":"2022-02-18T06:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T10:01:22","slug":"nasas-perseverance-rover-marks-its-first-year-hunting-for-past-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=716996","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#039;s Perseverance rover marks its first year hunting for past life on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1063_looking_at_watson_wide-5e03e7218294fe1acbd731c701a79b3f11e93023.jpe\" alt=\"Perseverance takes a selfie with its helicopter companion Ingenuity in the background.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since touching down in Jezero Crater, NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover has already cached 6 samples that could one day be brought back to Earth. Astrobiologists hope they hold signs of past microbial life.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/npr-rss-pixel-8.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/18\/1081626105\/nasas-perseverance-rover-marks-its-first-year-hunting-for-past-life-on-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover marks its first year hunting for past life on Mars<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since touching down in Jezero Crater, NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover has already cached 6 samples that could one day be brought back to Earth. Astrobiologists hope they hold signs of past&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-716996","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\/716996","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=716996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716996\/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=716996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}