{"id":2163,"date":"2025-10-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:07:15","slug":"an-earth-scientist-solved-a-mars-mystery-about-what-dug-these-weird-ditches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/an-earth-scientist-solved-a-mars-mystery-about-what-dug-these-weird-ditches\/","title":{"rendered":"An Earth scientist solved a Mars mystery about what dug these weird ditches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/an-earth-scientist-solved-a-mars-mystery-about-what-dug-thes_1rzx.640.jpg\">See this natural phenomenon at work.<\/p>\n<p>Strange, narrow channels threading through some of <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/60799\/mars-rock-discovery-makes-strongest-case-for-past-life-scientists-reveal\">Mars<\/a><\/u>&#8216; sand dunes have intrigued scientists for years. <\/p>\n<p>These Martian features don&#8217;t look like anything on Earth. Early theories proposed that flowing water created these gullies, perhaps when the Red Planet had a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/53071\/scientists-found-huge-beaches-on-mars-likely-from-a-long-gone-ocean\">warmer, wetter climate<\/a><\/u> billions of years ago. That \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See this natural phenomenon at work. Strange, narrow channels threading through some of Mars&#8216; sand dunes have intrigued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shopbijou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}