{"id":4269,"date":"2013-09-02T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2013-09-02T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T15:04:47","slug":"early-mars-good-for-starting-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4269","title":{"rendered":"Early Mars good for starting life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life in the solar system could very well have originated on Mars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn24120-primordial-broth-of-life-was-a-dry-martian-cupasoup.html#.UiO803-TJFs\" target=\"_d\">Primordial broth of life was a dry Martian cup-a-soup &#8211;\u00a0 New Scientist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn24135-martian-soup-may-have-been-tasty-to-early-life.html#.UiO8sX-TJFs\" target=\"_d\">Martian soup may have been tasty to early life &#8211; New Scientist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Martian microbes could have been transferred to earth via meteorites derived from debris hurled into space from asteroid or comet impacts on Mars. See<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martian_meteorite\" target=\"_d\">Martian meteorite &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imca.cc\/mars\/martian-meteorites.htm\" target=\"_d\">Martian Meteorites &#8211; IMCA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in the solar system could very well have originated on Mars: Primordial broth of life was a dry Martian cup-a-soup &#8211;\u00a0 New Scientist Martian soup may have been tasty to early life &#8211; New Scientist Martian microbes could have been transferred to earth via meteorites derived from debris hurled into space from asteroid or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early Mars good for starting life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-mars","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-16R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3291,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3291","url_meta":{"origin":4269,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Black Beauty&#8221; &#8211; a watery meteorite from Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In this video from the SETI Institute's weekly seminar series, Carl B. 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