{"id":699,"date":"2025-03-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:44:31","slug":"nasa-just-made-a-compelling-discovery-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/nasa-just-made-a-compelling-discovery-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA just made a compelling discovery on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“We are ready to take the next big step.”<\/p>\n

NASA’s Curiosity rover<\/a> made a compelling find on Mars<\/a>‘ irradiated surface. <\/p>\n

The car-sized robot’s molecule-sleuthing instrument, called Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, identified the longest-ever-found organic compounds on Mars. They could be fragments of “fatty acids,” a building block of earthly life that can \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We are ready to take the next big step.” NASA’s Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars‘ irradiated surface. The car-sized robot’s molecule-sleuthing instrument, called Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, identified the longest-ever-found organic compounds on Mars. They could be fragments of “fatty acids,” a building block of earthly life that can \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}