{"id":132199,"date":"2016-12-10T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/mars-and-organics.html"},"modified":"2016-12-11T00:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T07:46:38","slug":"mars-and-organics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/mars-and-organics.html","title":{"rendered":"Mars and Organics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite concerns about being able to detect them for a variety of reasons, <i>Curiosity<\/i> is finding organic compounds all around Mars. That doesn&#39;t mean life, past or present, but that early life could have found support once upon a time. <\/p>\n<p>Keen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.manyworlds.space\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/the-search-for-organic-compounds-on-mars-is-getting-results\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/nOPv-WDZUqBRuqHp-n15tg_JzocZYqVeLzN9lTd5DTzpb0IUluRp5RZHJczQ63AngTXUGTyHTPkHmHWeguU4q3p3HsdvENqpVi64cJRg_CFywdkkg_VO8KR8c-SgBdok0oirojW6=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.manyworlds.space\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/the-search-for-organic-compounds-on-mars-is-getting-results\/'>The Search for Organic Compounds On Mars Is Getting Results &ndash; Many Worlds<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSedimentary rocks of the Kimberley Formation in Gale Crater, as photographed in 2015. The crater contains thick deposits of finely-laminated mudstone from fine-grained sediments deposited in a standing body of water that persisted for a long period of time. Scientists have now reported several &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ZHRKeKchTum'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite concerns about being able to detect them for a variety of reasons, Curiosity is finding organic compounds all around Mars. That doesn&#39;t mean life, past or present, but that early life could have found support once upon a time. Keen. The Search for Organic Compounds On Mars Is Getting Results &ndash; Many Worlds Sedimentary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/mars-and-organics.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mars and Organics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30380,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/the-waters-of-mars.html","url_meta":{"origin":132199,"position":0},"title":"The Waters of Mars","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Sep-12 5:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Coolness. \u00a0(h\/t +Donald Mclaughlin)Reshared post from +WIREDAn exciting discovery: Curiosity unearths evidence that the Gale crater once had flowing water for thousands -- maybe millions -- of years. 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