{"id":187020,"date":"2024-04-08T20:30:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/scientists-solve-a-long-standing-mystery-surrounding-the-moons-lopsided-geology"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:30:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:30:30","slug":"scientists-solve-a-long-standing-mystery-surrounding-the-moons-lopsided-geology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/scientists-solve-a-long-standing-mystery-surrounding-the-moons-lopsided-geology","title":{"rendered":"Scientists solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the moon\u2019s \u2018lopsided\u2019 geology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-solve-a-long-standing-mystery-surrounding-the-moons-lopsided-geology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 4.5 billion years ago, a small planet smashed into the young Earth, flinging molten rock into space. Slowly, the debris coalesced, cooled and solidified, forming our moon. This scenario of how the Earth\u2019s moon came to be is the one largely agreed upon by most scientists. But the details of how exactly that happened are \u201cmore of a choose-your-own-adventure novel,\u201d according to researchers in the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory who published a paper in Nature Geoscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 4.5 billion years ago, a small planet smashed into the young Earth, flinging molten rock into space. Slowly, the debris coalesced, cooled and solidified, forming our moon. This scenario of how the Earth\u2019s moon came to be is the one largely agreed upon by most scientists. But the details of how exactly that happened [\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-187020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187020","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=187020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}