{"id":874235,"date":"2025-09-20T00:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/the-ancient-mars-variety-show\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:11:48","slug":"the-ancient-mars-variety-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/the-ancient-mars-variety-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Mars Variety Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University Perseverance accomplished something unusual this week: abrading two dramatically different rocks within the span of a few days. While exploring the Vernodden area along Jezero crater\u2019s rim, the rover has been studying what might be \u201cmegablocks,\u201d a variety of ancient crustal materials with [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blog\/the-ancient-mars-variety-show\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Georgianna Pingree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University Perseverance accomplished something unusual this week: abrading two dramatically different rocks within the span of a few days. While exploring the Vernodden area along Jezero crater\u2019s rim, the rover has been studying what might be \u201cmegablocks,\u201d a variety of ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3350,536,2997],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-874235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ancient","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-variety"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}