{"id":2797,"date":"2008-08-01T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/01\/blue-sky-on-mars\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T09:22:00","slug":"blue-sky-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/01\/blue-sky-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Sky On Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, OK, that&#8217;s a stretch, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/01\/science\/space\/01mars.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">there is water<\/a>, according to the latest Phoenix results:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve now finally touched it and tasted it,&#8221; William V. Boynton, a professor at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona and the lead scientist for the instrument that detected the water, said at a news conference on Thursday. &#8220;And I&#8217;d like to say, from my standpoint, it tastes very fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No word yet on whether they&#8217;ve managed to figure out how to turn on the alien atmosphere-generating machine. That&#8217;ll probably have to wait for the next mission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Here&#8217;s a bonus link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/sciencenow\/0306\/01.html\">the NOVA ScienceNow piece on Phoenix<\/a> that aired the other night. Via Phoenix Lander on Facebook, of all things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, OK, that&#8217;s a stretch, but there is water, according to the latest Phoenix results: &#8220;We&#8217;ve now finally touched it and tasted it,&#8221; William V. Boynton, a professor at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona and the lead scientist for the instrument that detected the water, said at a news conference&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/01\/blue-sky-on-mars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Sky On Mars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,11,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-in_the_news","category-science","category-space","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}