{"id":3927187,"date":"2026-07-27T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-australian-lakes-showed-us-about-martian-hydrology\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:03:24","slug":"what-australian-lakes-showed-us-about-martian-hydrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-australian-lakes-showed-us-about-martian-hydrology\/","title":{"rendered":"What Australian lakes showed us about Martian hydrology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The expansive red bluffs of Western Australia&#8217;s Yilgarn Craton give the landscape a Martian appearance. It turns out the resemblance is more than superficial: The Yilgarn Craton also shares geological characteristics with lakes in Mars&#8217; Terra Sirenum region. T. A. Plattner and colleagues recently characterized those shared features to shed light on the region&#8217;s aqueous history and its potential to have supported life in an article published in the journal Earth and Space Science.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-australian-lakes-martian-hydrology.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expansive red bluffs of Western Australia&#8217;s Yilgarn Craton give the landscape a Martian appearance. It turns out the resemblance is more than superficial: The Yilgarn Craton also shares geological characteristics with lakes in Mars&#8217; Terra Sirenum region. T. A. Plattner and colleagues recently characterized those shared features to shed light on the region&#8217;s aqueous [&#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-3927187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927187","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=3927187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}