{"id":3926205,"date":"2026-05-29T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/marss-manganese-bathtub-ring-reveals-ancient-ocean-timeline-and-its-potential-for-life\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:04:18","slug":"marss-manganese-bathtub-ring-reveals-ancient-ocean-timeline-and-its-potential-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/marss-manganese-bathtub-ring-reveals-ancient-ocean-timeline-and-its-potential-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars&#8217;s manganese &#8216;bathtub ring&#8217; reveals ancient ocean timeline and its potential for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Past research has indicated Mars&#8217;s largest northern basin, Utopia Planitia, was once the location of a large body of water, but details surrounding when this body of water may have existed have not been resolved. Researchers have now identified a ring of minerals in the region that have helped them string together a timeline of what happened there. The new study, published in Nature Communications, provides details about the ocean&#8217;s timeline and what it says about life on Mars.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-mars-manganese-bathtub-reveals-ancient.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past research has indicated Mars&#8217;s largest northern basin, Utopia Planitia, was once the location of a large body of water, but details surrounding when this body of water may have existed have not been resolved. Researchers have now identified a ring of minerals in the region that have helped them string together a timeline of [&#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-3926205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}