{"id":41165,"date":"2017-04-07T23:49:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T05:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41165"},"modified":"2017-04-07T23:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T05:49:13","slug":"volcanic-activity-ancient-mars-may-produced-organic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/04\/volcanic-activity-ancient-mars-may-produced-organic-life.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41166\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/Eso1509a_-_Mars_planet.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41166\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41166\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/Eso1509a_-_Mars_planet.jpg\" alt=\"Mars, as it might have been\" width=\"596\" height=\"366\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This artist\u2019s impression (from the European Southern Observatory) shows how Mars may have looked about four billion years ago. The young planet Mars would have had enough water to cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 140 meters deep, but it\u2019s more likely that the liquid would have pooled to form an ocean occupying almost half of Mars\u2019s northern hemisphere, and in some regions reaching depths greater than 1.6 kilometers.<br>(Public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/space\/planets\/volcanic-activity-on-ancient-mars-may-have-produced-organic-life\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/space\/planets\/volcanic-activity-on-ancient-mars-may-have-produced-organic-life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Twin Falls, Idaho<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/space\/planets\/volcanic-activity-on-ancient-mars-may-have-produced-organic-life \u00a0 Posted from Twin Falls, Idaho \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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