{"id":3926547,"date":"2026-06-17T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mineral-garnet-discovered-in-mars-meteorite-may-reveal-how-the-red-planet-evolved-billions-of-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:01:35","slug":"mineral-garnet-discovered-in-mars-meteorite-may-reveal-how-the-red-planet-evolved-billions-of-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mineral-garnet-discovered-in-mars-meteorite-may-reveal-how-the-red-planet-evolved-billions-of-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Mineral garnet discovered in Mars meteorite may reveal how the red planet evolved billions of years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, discovered the mineral garnet in a Martian sample. The breakthrough offers a rare glimpse into Mars&#8217; ancient past and could help researchers piece together the planet&#8217;s 4.5-billion-year geological history. The discovery was made by an international research team including James Darling, professor of Earth and planetary science, from the University of Portsmouth&#8217;s School of the Environment and Life Sciences.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-mineral-garnet-mars-meteorite-reveal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, discovered the mineral garnet in a Martian sample. The breakthrough offers a rare glimpse into Mars&#8217; ancient past and could help researchers piece together the planet&#8217;s 4.5-billion-year geological history. The discovery was made [&#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-3926547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926547","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=3926547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}