{"id":180587,"date":"2024-01-15T21:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/discovery-changes-understanding-of-waters-history-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2024-01-15T21:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T03:25:11","slug":"discovery-changes-understanding-of-waters-history-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/discovery-changes-understanding-of-waters-history-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Discovery changes understanding of water\u2019s history on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-changes-understanding-of-waters-history-on-the-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from a Western University postdoctoral fellow shows the early lunar crust, which makes up the surface of the moon, was considerably enriched in water more than 4 billion years ago, counter to previously held understanding. The discovery is outlined in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-023-02185-5\">published<\/a> today (Jan. 15) in the journal Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>Working with a meteorite she classified as one that came from the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/moon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">moon<\/a> while a graduate student at The Open University (U.K.), Tara Hayden identified, for the first time, the mineral apatite (the most common phosphate) in a sample of early lunar crust.<\/p>\n<p>The research offers exciting new evidence that the moon\u2019s early crust contained more water than was originally thought, opening new doors into the study of lunar history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from a Western University postdoctoral fellow shows the early lunar crust, which makes up the surface of the moon, was considerably enriched in water more than 4 billion years ago, counter to previously held understanding. The discovery is outlined in a study published today (Jan. 15) in the journal Nature Astronomy. Working with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180587","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}