{"id":38694,"date":"2021-03-15T04:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=38694"},"modified":"2021-03-15T04:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T04:58:17","slug":"martian-blueberries-find-a-parallel-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/martian-blueberries-find-a-parallel-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Martian \u2018blueberries\u2019 find a parallel on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2004, NASA\u2019s Mars exploration rover \u2018Opportunity\u2019 found several small spheres on the planet, informally named Martian blueberries. Opportunity\u2019s mini spectrometers studied the mineralogy and noted they were made of iron oxide compounds called haematites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This caused excitement, as the presence of haematites suggests that there was water present on Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opportunity\u2019s spectrometers studied the mineralogy and noted they were made of iron oxide compounds called haematites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This caused excitement, as the presence of haematites suggests that there was water present on Mars. Haematite is known to form in oxidising environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2004, NASA\u2019s Mars exploration rover \u2018Opportunity\u2019 found several small spheres on the planet, informally named Martian blueberries. Opportunity\u2019s mini spectrometers studied the mineralogy and noted they were made of iron oxide compounds called haematites. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This caused excitement, as the presence of haematites suggests that there was water present on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":38695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-38694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2021","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38696,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38694\/revisions\/38696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}