{"id":87317,"date":"2020-07-24T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16526"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T07:49:07","slug":"lonar-lake-turned-pink-due-to-haloarchaea-microbes-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lonar-lake-turned-pink-due-to-haloarchaea-microbes-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonar lake turned pink due to \u2018Haloarchaea\u2019 microbes: Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>According to the Agharkar Research Institute, the colour of Lonar lake water turned pink due to a large presence of \u2018Haloarchaea\u2019 microbes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Haloarchaea or Halophilic archaea:<\/strong> It is a bacteria culture which produces pink pigment and is found in water saturated with salt.<\/li><li>However,the colour of the lake is returning to original as the rainy season has started allowing dilution of the water.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Lonar Lake:<\/strong> It is a notified National Geo Heritage Monument located at Lonar, Maharashtra.<\/li><li><strong>Formation<\/strong>: The lake is believed to have been formed when a meteorite crashed into Earth around 50,000 years ago.<ul><li>The lake sits inside the Deccan Plateau\u2014a massive plain of volcanic basalt rock created by eruptions some 65 million years ago.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: According to the Agharkar Research Institute, the colour of Lonar lake water turned pink due to a large presence of \u2018Haloarchaea\u2019 microbes. Facts: Haloarchaea or Halophilic archaea: It is a bacteria culture which produces pink pigment and is found in water saturated with salt. However,the colour of the lake is returning to original as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lonar-lake-turned-pink-due-to-haloarchaea-microbes-probe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lonar lake turned pink due to \u2018Haloarchaea\u2019 microbes: Probe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5027],"class_list":["post-87317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-lonar-lake","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704727573},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}