{"id":4380,"date":"2012-08-09T21:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:38:29","slug":"ucla-scientist-discovers-plate-tectonics-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=4380","title":{"rendered":"UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the movement of huge crustal plates beneath a planet&#8217;s surface, also exists on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives us a glimpse of how the early Earth may have looked and may help us understand how plate tectonics began on Earth,&#8221; said An Yin, a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences and the sole author of the new research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/portal\/ucla\/ucla-scientist-discovers-plate-237303.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full UCLA Newsroom article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Yin demonstrates his method for studying plate tectonics on Mars:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3ahLnxD3GIo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon, which involves the movement of huge crustal plates beneath a planet&#8217;s surface, also exists on Mars. &#8220;Mars is at a primitive stage of plate tectonics. It gives &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=4380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[350,288,365],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-an-yin","tag-mars","tag-plate-tectonics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13193,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/13193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}