{"id":168,"date":"2004-03-02T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2004-03-02T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T23:22:41","slug":"wet-mars-at-morning-sailors-take-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2004\/03\/02\/wet-mars-at-morning-sailors-take-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet Mars at morning, sailors take warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>(via IP)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>According to NASA, Mars was once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2004\/mar\/HQ_04077_water_on_mars.html\">sopping wet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the article: &#8220;Liquid water once flowed through these rocks. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry,&#8221; said Dr. Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for the science instruments on Opportunity and its twin, Spirit. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Garvin, lead scientist for Mars and lunar exploration at NASA Headquarters, Washington, said, &#8220;NASA launched the Mars Exploration Rover mission specifically to check whether at least one part of Mars ever had a persistently wet environment that could possibly have been hospitable to life. Today we have strong evidence for an exciting answer: Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cool!<\/p>\n<p>and Wet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via IP) According to NASA, Mars was once sopping wet. From the article: &#8220;Liquid water once flowed through these rocks. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry,&#8221; said Dr. Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for the science instruments on Opportunity and its twin, Spirit. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been able to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}