{"id":133847,"date":"2022-01-10T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/china-detected-water-from-the-moons-surface-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2022-01-10T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:23:09","slug":"china-detected-water-from-the-moons-surface-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/china-detected-water-from-the-moons-surface-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"China Detected Water From the Moon\u2019s Surface for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-detected-water-from-the-moons-surface-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adding to its space program\u2019s growing list of achievements.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s space program (CNSA) is the first to detect water signals directly from the Moon\u2019s surface thanks to its Chang\u2019e-5 lunar probe, a report from CGTN reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The new breakthrough provides yet another important milestone for the CNSA, which is ambitiously closing the gap between itself and the world\u2019s two historic space superpowers, the U.S. and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The first in-situ lunar water detection For years, thanks to a number of orbital observations and sample measurements, it has been known that water exists on the Moon. In fact, last year a California-based startup called Masten Space Systems announced it is developing a robotic rover that can mine ice on the Moon to provide future lunar habitats with water and oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding to its space program\u2019s growing list of achievements. China\u2019s space program (CNSA) is the first to detect water signals directly from the Moon\u2019s surface thanks to its Chang\u2019e-5 lunar probe, a report from CGTN reveals. The new breakthrough provides yet another important milestone for the CNSA, which is ambitiously closing the gap between itself [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133847","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}