{"id":1539,"date":"2018-04-13T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:09:12","slug":"salty-subglacial-lakes-could-host-cousins-to-otherwordly-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Salty Subglacial Lakes Could Host Cousins to Otherwordly Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 247px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/content\/634898\/finding-alien-world-half-mile-beneath-canadian-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kjzz.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field\/image\/DevonOverview01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure by Anja Rutishauser.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An international team of researchers has reported what may be the first two isolated, salty, subglacial lakes found on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The water pockets \u2014 one roughly the area of Arizona&#8217;s Saguaro Lake, the other about four-fifths the size of the state&#8217;s Apache Lake \u2014 differ from 400 other subglacial pools in that they are 4-5 times as salty as Earth&#8217;s oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/content\/634898\/finding-alien-world-half-mile-beneath-canadian-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Finding An Alien World Half A Mile Beneath Canadian Ice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has reported what may be the first two isolated, salty, subglacial lakes found on Earth. The water pockets \u2014 one roughly the area of Arizona&#8217;s Saguaro Lake, the other about four-fifths the size of the state&#8217;s Apache Lake \u2014 differ from 400 other subglacial pools in that they are 4-5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salty Subglacial Lakes Could Host Cousins to Otherwordly Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,50,596,3,49],"tags":[1507,1506,1370,786,1509,1508,1505,533],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-geoscience","category-paleontology","category-science","category-water-issues","tag-canada","tag-devon-ice-cap","tag-ecology","tag-europa","tag-extraterrestrial","tag-extremophiles","tag-glaciers","tag-microbes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}