{"id":199945,"date":"2007-06-15T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/15\/study-supports-existence-of-martian-ocean\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T11:03:00","slug":"study-supports-existence-of-martian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/15\/study-supports-existence-of-martian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Study supports existence of Martian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this is true, Mars must have had life at some point.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/section\/2\/story.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10445632\">New study supports existence of Mars ocean shoreline<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Long, undulating features on the northern plains of Mars probably are remnants of shorelines of an ocean that covered a third of the planet&#8217;s surface at least 2 billion years ago, scientists said today.<\/p>\n<p>The geological features, stretching thousands of kilometres, were first revealed in the 1980s in Viking spacecraft images. But topographical data collected by Nasa&#8217;s Mars Global Surveyor in the 1990s cast doubt on whether the features truly marked a long-gone sea coast.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8Psnm0b0g1E\/RnSluP4EchI\/AAAAAAAAAHM\/9PlCwsuU9hQ\/s400\/mars230.jpg\" \/><br \/>An illustration shows how Mars might have appeared more than 2 billion years ago, with an ocean filling the lowland basin. Photo \/ Reuters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this is true, Mars must have had life at some point. New study supports existence of Mars ocean shoreline WASHINGTON &#8211; Long, undulating features on the northern plains of Mars probably are remnants of shorelines of an ocean that covered a third of the planet&#8217;s surface at least 2 billion years ago, scientists said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}