{"id":791585,"date":"2024-11-29T06:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791585"},"modified":"2024-11-29T06:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:59:01","slug":"life-on-mars-could-be-thriving-in-an-area-deep-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791585","title":{"rendered":"Life on Mars could be thriving in an area deep underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The Acidalia Planitia, the darker region towards the top right of this image of Mars, may host bacteria deep beneath the surface rocks<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/JPL\/USGS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A specific area on Mars has been identified as a potential location for current life \u2013 with the organisms living far beneath the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Butturini at the University of Barcelona in Spain and his colleagues investigated possible locations on Mars that could host life. They focused on areas that might have the right amounts of water, heat and energy necessary for life to exist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2458263-life-on-mars-could-be-thriving-in-an-area-deep-underground\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Acidalia Planitia, the darker region towards the top right of this image of Mars, may host bacteria deep beneath the surface rocks NASA\/JPL\/USGS A specific area on Mars has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791585","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=791585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}