{"id":116624,"date":"2020-12-03T22:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/moon-may-hold-billions-of-tons-of-subterranean-ice-at-its-poles"},"modified":"2020-12-03T22:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:22:57","slug":"moon-may-hold-billions-of-tons-of-subterranean-ice-at-its-poles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/moon-may-hold-billions-of-tons-of-subterranean-ice-at-its-poles","title":{"rendered":"Moon May Hold Billions of Tons of Subterranean Ice at Its Poles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moon-may-hold-billions-of-tons-of-subterranean-ice-at-its-poles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research indicates that if even a moderate amount of the water delivered by asteroids to the Moon was sequestered, the lunar poles would contain gigaton deposits (1 billion metric tons) of ice in sheltered craters and beneath its surface.<\/p>\n<p>By modeling over 4 billion years of the Moon\u2019s impact history, researchers were able to track the origin and potential quantity of ice that might be obscured from view beneath the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at the entire time history of ice deposition on the Moon,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/geology.mines.edu\/project\/cannon-kevin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Cannon<\/a>, a planetary scientist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden and lead author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2020GL088920?casa_token=OaUlX_-5fRUAAAAA%3AFRBU26dpDPFEVcgYRNL2JC_G3HobSGj9bZWu5T6nYpC0I8b7yew9m3v5WVyWLz5QwvqxKcJp1Egnzw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new study<\/a> in the AGU journal <em>Geophysical Research Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research indicates that if even a moderate amount of the water delivered by asteroids to the Moon was sequestered, the lunar poles would contain gigaton deposits (1 billion metric tons) of ice in sheltered craters and beneath its surface. By modeling over 4 billion years of the Moon\u2019s impact history, researchers were able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}