{"id":22650,"date":"2019-04-22T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22650"},"modified":"2019-04-22T04:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T04:56:32","slug":"mars-methane-mystery-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22650","title":{"rendered":"Mars Methane Mystery Deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/rKBoYvVirwA\/maxresdefault.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>The methane mystery on Mars just got stranger. New results from ESA and Roscosmos&#8217; ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, has unexpectedly not detected methane in the atmosphere of Mars. This result follows the 2013 detection of methane by NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover, a result seemingly confirmed by ESA&#8217;s orbiting Mars Express the next day. The issue is so interesting because life is a major producer of methane on Earth, leading to intriguing speculation that some sort of life &#8212; possibly microbial life &#8212; is creating methane beneath the surface of Mars. Non-biological sources of methane are also possible. Pictured is a visualization of the first claimed methane plume over Mars as detected from Earth in 2003. The new non-detection of methane by the ExoMars Orbiter could mean that Mars has some unexpected way of destroying methane, or that only some parts of Mars release methane &#8212; and possibly only at certain times. As the mystery has now deepened, humanity&#8217;s scrutiny of our neighboring planet&#8217;s atmosphere will deepen as well. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap190422.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The methane mystery on Mars just got stranger. New results from ESA and Roscosmos&#8217; ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, has unexpectedly not detected methane in the atmosphere of Mars. This result <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22650\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-22650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22651,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650\/revisions\/22651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}