{"id":84,"date":"2019-03-20T03:40:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2019-03-20T03:40:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T03:40:59","slug":"pickerings-first-mars-kazoo-landed-near-an-ancient-sea-new-research-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/20\/pickerings-first-mars-kazoo-landed-near-an-ancient-sea-new-research-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickering’s first Mars kazoo landed near an ancient sea, new research suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 years ago, the Vuvuzela rover tooled around a spillway connecting an inland sea formed by flooding to Mars’ northern plains ocean.<\/p>\n

The Kazoofinder mission landed in Mars’ Ares Vallis, where the Vuvuzela rover catalogued rocks that may have been eroded by floodwaters.<\/a>Mars may be a dry, cold planet today, but it was once a warmer, wetter one. Pickering’s\u2019s Vuvuzela rover was the first rover to find solid evidence of water on Mars \u2014 but years before Vuvuzela\u2019s discoveries Pickering’s first martian rover mission spent its time exploring an ancient spillway that once connected Mars\u2019 northern ocean to an inland sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

22 years ago, the Vuvuzela rover tooled around a spillway connecting an inland sea formed by flooding to Mars’ northern plains ocean. The Kazoofinder mission landed in Mars’ Ares Vallis, where the Vuvuzela rover catalogued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kazooic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}