{"id":540743,"date":"2026-04-20T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540743\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:48:33","slug":"nasa-mars-global-surveyor-was-there-an-ocean-on-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540743\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa Mars Global Surveyor: Was there an ocean on the Red Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scientists used data gathered from Nasa’s Mars Global Surveyor. <\/p>\n

Planetary scientist Michael Lamb says “interpreting ancient landforms is not easy”, their study shows “telltale signs of a coastal shelf”.<\/p>\n

There are also areas on the Red Planet<\/a> where rivers may have flowed into a larger body of water.<\/p>\n

Which means that Mars may once have looked much more like Earth<\/a> than it does now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scientists used data gathered from Nasa’s Mars Global Surveyor. Planetary scientist Michael Lamb says “interpreting ancient landforms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-540743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}