{"id":406,"date":"2015-10-03T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T23:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=406"},"modified":"2015-10-03T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T23:41:05","slug":"water-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"water on mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA have recently announced the discovery of flowing water on the planet Mars. Of course this is not really anything new! In late 1945 my grandfather gave my father a science book entitled <em>The Marvels and Mysteries of Science<\/em> &#8220;written in popular style&#8221; by Clyde Fisher et al. (published in 1943) for my father&#8217;s 13th birthday. Clyde himself penned chapter 1, &#8220;The Wonders of the Heavens.&#8221; The chapter is a delight, including an artist&#8217;s impressions of the canals of Mars. So to celebrate the discovery of water on Mars I&#8217;ve reproduced a page which relates what was known of Mars way back in the early 1940s. Enjoy!<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-407\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CanalsOfMars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CanalsOfMars-710x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A page about Mars from the 1943 book The Marvels and Mysteries of Science\" width=\"660\" height=\"952\" class=\"size-large wp-image-407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2015\/10\/CanalsOfMars-710x1024.jpg 710w, https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2015\/10\/CanalsOfMars-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2015\/10\/CanalsOfMars-619x892.jpg 619w, https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2015\/10\/CanalsOfMars-900x1297.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2015\/10\/CanalsOfMars.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A page about Mars from the 1943 book The Marvels and Mysteries of Science<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA have recently announced the discovery of flowing water on the planet Mars. Of course this is not really anything new! In late 1945 my grandfather gave my father a science book entitled The Marvels and Mysteries of Science &#8220;written in popular style&#8221; by Clyde Fisher et al. (published in 1943) for my father&#8217;s 13th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}