{"609067":{"#nid":"609067","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A buried lake may have been found on Mars. What does it mean for life?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists appear to have identified a 12-mile-wide salty lake underneath a massive glacier.\u0026nbsp;The\u0026nbsp;research\u0026nbsp;opens up the possibility that microbial life may live in this liquid place on Mars. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/glass-dr-jennifer\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJennifer Glass\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an astrobiologist at Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, comments on the finding. Mars is rich in perchlorate, a salt often used in propellants on Earth. This might be toxic to humans, but some microbes thrive on it, like Earth\u0026#39;s marine microbes thrive on carbon dioxide. \u0026quot;People might think that\u0026rsquo;s nasty stuff,\u0026quot; said Glass, who wasn\u0026#39;t involved in the research. \u0026quot;That\u0026#39;s not true. Microbes can breathe perchlorate \u0026mdash; a lot of life can breathe perchlorate.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-07-27 22:11:04","changed_gmt":"2018-07-27 22:33:24","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Semiconductor Workforce","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2018\/07\/25\/mars-underground-water-life\/#GPUZ8gpVZPqf","dateline":{"date":"2018-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"598844":{"id":"598844","type":"image","title":"Jennifer Glass (Photo by Maureen Rouhi)","body":null,"created":"1510788776","gmt_created":"2017-11-15 23:32:56","changed":"1510862598","gmt_changed":"2017-11-16 20:03:18","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228313","name":"2017-18 Diversity.JennGlass.square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2017-18%20Diversity.JennGlass.square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2017-18%20Diversity.JennGlass.square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":53458,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2017-18%20Diversity.JennGlass.square.jpg?itok=d6VPa6W1"}}},"media_ids":["598844"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175346","name":"water on Mars"},{"id":"79441","name":"jennifer glass"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}