{"id":3922474,"date":"2025-10-23T01:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/geochemical-research-could-help-identify-microbial-activity-in-earths-rock-record-and-perhaps-in-martian-sediments\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:04:07","slug":"geochemical-research-could-help-identify-microbial-activity-in-earths-rock-record-and-perhaps-in-martian-sediments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/geochemical-research-could-help-identify-microbial-activity-in-earths-rock-record-and-perhaps-in-martian-sediments\/","title":{"rendered":"Geochemical research could help identify microbial activity in Earth&#8217;s rock record and perhaps in Martian sediments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, scientists closely study how they form. Sulfates are stable over billions of years, so their oxygen isotopes are seen as a time capsule, reflecting atmospheric conditions while they were evolving on early Earth\u2014and possibly on its planetary neighbor Mars.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-10-geochemical-microbial-earth-martian-sediments.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, scientists closely study how they form. Sulfates are stable over billions of years, so their oxygen isotopes are seen as a time capsule, reflecting atmospheric conditions while they were evolving on early Earth\u2014and possibly on its planetary neighbor Mars. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/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-3922474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922474","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=3922474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}