{"id":794491,"date":"2025-03-18T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794491"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:32:08","slug":"new-evidence-microbes-played-a-role-in-mysterious-markings-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794491","title":{"rendered":"New evidence microbes played a role in mysterious markings on Mars"},"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 Bright Angel area where an intriguing Martian rock was discovered<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are narrowing down explanations for a potential chemical sign of ancient life on Mars. This sign \u2013 marks found on Martian rocks last year \u2013 could have been caused by microbes or by a reaction that takes place only at high temperatures. New findings suggest the biological explanation is more likely.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, while exploring an ancient lakebed called Bright Angel in Mars\u2019s Jezero crater, NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover discovered a rock with unusual markings \u2013 called \u201cleopard\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2472570-new-evidence-microbes-played-a-role-in-mysterious-markings-on-mars\/?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 Bright Angel area where an intriguing Martian rock was discovered NASA\/JPL-Caltech Scientists are narrowing down explanations for a potential chemical sign of ancient life on Mars. This sign \u2013&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794491","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\/794491","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=794491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}