{"id":923964,"date":"2026-08-01T02:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/laying-odds-on-the-potential-for-martian-water-near-future-landing-zones\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:12:12","slug":"laying-odds-on-the-potential-for-martian-water-near-future-landing-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/laying-odds-on-the-potential-for-martian-water-near-future-landing-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Laying odds on the potential for Martian water near future landing zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar-powered equipment!) would much rather experience life closer to Mars&#8217; equator. As NASA looks toward landing humans on the red planet, the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) is mapping where water should and shouldn&#8217;t be found and using statistics to quantify its certainty&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-laying-odds-potential-martian-future.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Zonia Michaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar-powered equipment!) would much rather experience life closer to Mars&#8217; equator. As NASA looks toward landing humans on the red planet, the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) is mapping where water should and shouldn&#8217;t be found and using statistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23284,3368,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-laying","category-potential","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923964","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=923964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}