{"id":4989,"date":"2020-12-22T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:16:23","slug":"how-the-first-life-on-earth-survived-its-biggest-threat-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/22\/how-the-first-life-on-earth-survived-its-biggest-threat-water\/","title":{"rendered":"How the First Life on Earth Survived its Biggest Threat \u2014 Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UWAB faculty member, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/david-catling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prof. David Catling<\/a><\/strong> (Earth &amp; Space Sciences), was recently interviewed in a Nature News article discussing NASA&#8217;s Perseverance Rover and why analogous locations on Earth suggest that It&#8217;s choice of landing spot, Jezero Crater, is one of the best locations to search for signs of life on Mars!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In the Article, David discusses some of his recent research into the origins of life on Earth and how shallow surface lakes, and their seasonal wet-dry cycles, may have provided the right conditions and for the prebiotic chemical interactions that set the stage for the first cells to form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-03461-4\" target=\"_blank\">You can read the full article from Nature here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWAB faculty member, Prof. David Catling (Earth &amp; Space Sciences), was recently interviewed in a Nature News article discussing NASA&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[47,13,32,33],"tags":[44,243,111,140,49,242,244],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}