{"id":5839,"date":"2016-02-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mg22930624.600"},"modified":"2016-02-24T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T18:00:00","slug":"follow-the-salt-may-be-best-strategy-to-find-martian-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2016\/02\/24\/follow-the-salt-may-be-best-strategy-to-find-martian-microbes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Follow the salt\u2019 may be best strategy to find Martian microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"Until now \u2018follow the water\u2019 was the mantra when seeking life beyond Earth. But microbes in the Atacama desert survive in dry crusts of salt, so why not on Mars?<br clear='all'\/><br\/><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/1\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/1\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br\/><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/2\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/2\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br\/><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/3\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/3\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br\/><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/a2.htm\"><img src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/a2.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/adchoice.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/ach.htm\"><img src=\"http:\/\/adchoice.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/ach.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><img width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\"\/><img width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi2.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/a2t2.img\" border=\"0\"\/><img width='1' height='1' src='http:\/\/feeds.newscientist.com\/c\/749\/f\/10897\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/mf.gif' border='0'\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now &lsquo;follow the water&rsquo; was the mantra when seeking life beyond Earth. But microbes in the Atacama desert survive in dry crusts of salt, so why not on Mars?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/1\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/1\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/2\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/2\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/3\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/rc\/3\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/a2.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/a2.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/adchoice.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/ach.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adchoice.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/ach.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi2.feedsportal.com\/r\/247386101790\/u\/197\/f\/10897\/c\/749\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/a2t2.img\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.newscientist.com\/c\/749\/f\/10897\/s\/4ddc9efe\/sc\/26\/mf.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}