{"id":1949,"date":"2009-02-27T07:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2009-02-26T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T20:02:31","slug":"mars-has-a-water-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"Mars Has a Water Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, a little one.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are still poring over data gathered from the Phoenix Mars Lander, but think they&#8217;ve found evidence that water vapor is collapsing into the Martian soil at night.  The thin films of &#8220;unfrozen water&#8221; (not as free-flowing as water but more mobile than ice) are enough to allow some chemistry and might even support some biology.<\/p>\n<p>The article doesn&#8217;t extend a lot of hope that conditions are sufficient to support life currently, but this helps bolster the argument that conditions might have been favorable in the fairly recent past.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/090226-am-mars-water-life.html\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, a little one. Scientists are still poring over data gathered from the Phoenix Mars Lander, but think they&#8217;ve found evidence that water vapor is collapsing into the Martian soil at night. The thin films of &#8220;unfrozen water&#8221; (not as free-flowing as water but more mobile than ice) are enough to allow some chemistry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}