{"id":3921786,"date":"2025-09-08T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/50-years-ago-nasa-sent-two-spacecraft-to-search-for-life-on-mars-the-missions-findings-are-still-discussed-today\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:03:40","slug":"50-years-ago-nasa-sent-two-spacecraft-to-search-for-life-on-mars-the-missions-findings-are-still-discussed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/50-years-ago-nasa-sent-two-spacecraft-to-search-for-life-on-mars-the-missions-findings-are-still-discussed-today\/","title":{"rendered":"50 years ago, NASA sent two spacecraft to search for life on Mars. The missions&#8217; findings are still discussed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Finding life beyond Earth would be a major scientific discovery with significant implications for all areas of science and human thought. Yet, only one direct search for extraterrestrial life has ever been conducted.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-years-nasa-spacecraft-life-mars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding life beyond Earth would be a major scientific discovery with significant implications for all areas of science and human thought. Yet, only one direct search for extraterrestrial life has ever been conducted. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}