{"id":2574,"date":"2025-05-12T11:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/scientists-searching-for-traces-of-extraterrestrial-life-in-scotland\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:05:50","slug":"scientists-searching-for-traces-of-extraterrestrial-life-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/scientists-searching-for-traces-of-extraterrestrial-life-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists searching for traces of extraterrestrial life in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-12 11:05:49<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Scientists are scouring Scotland for traces of extraterrestrial life.<BR><br \/>\nA team from the University of St. Andrews has been testing cameras in the Scottish Highlands township, Lower Diabaig, for a new robot rover by the European Space Agency that is set to be sent to space in 2028.<BR><br \/>\nAnd as part of their research, they are using tech to find biology in billion-year-old rocks, such as mudstone, that have not metamorphosed.<BR><br \/>\nDoctor Claire Cousins said on the BBC programme &#8216;Landward&#8217;: &#8220;The rocks haven&#8217;t metamorphosed right. They haven&#8217;t been cooked and squeezed and crushed.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;These are perfect for showing us there was once liquid water &#8211; a habitable environment for life.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-12 11:05:49 Scientists are scouring Scotland for traces of extraterrestrial life. A team from the University of St. Andrews has been testing cameras in the Scottish Highlands township, Lower Diabaig,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}