{"id":132503,"date":"2021-12-16T06:23:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/moon-rock-collected-by-apollo-17-astronauts-reveals-new-details-about-lunar-evolution"},"modified":"2021-12-16T06:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:23:34","slug":"moon-rock-collected-by-apollo-17-astronauts-reveals-new-details-about-lunar-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/moon-rock-collected-by-apollo-17-astronauts-reveals-new-details-about-lunar-evolution","title":{"rendered":"Moon rock collected by Apollo 17 astronauts reveals new details about lunar evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moon-rock-collected-by-apollo-17-astronauts-reveals-new-details-about-lunar-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lunar rock brought to Earth nearly half a century ago is revealing new information about the moon\u2019s complex history.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Apollo 17 mission left the moon to return to Earth 49 years ago Tuesday (Dec. 14) and humanity hasn\u2019t been back to our natural satellite since. In a new study, researchers examined a moon rock collected by astronauts during Apollo 17. By measuring the composition of the rock, designated \u201ctroctolite 76535,\u201d scientists have found patterns that point to a 20-million-year cooling period during the moon\u2019s history, defying previous understanding of lunar evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lunar rock brought to Earth nearly half a century ago is revealing new information about the moon\u2019s complex history. NASA\u2019s Apollo 17 mission left the moon to return to Earth 49 years ago Tuesday (Dec. 14) and humanity hasn\u2019t been back to our natural satellite since. In a new study, researchers examined a moon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132503","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}