{"id":193002,"date":"2024-07-15T19:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T00:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-detect-huge-caverns-under-surface-of-moon"},"modified":"2024-07-15T19:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T00:22:39","slug":"scientists-detect-huge-caverns-under-surface-of-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-detect-huge-caverns-under-surface-of-moon","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Detect Huge Caverns Under Surface of Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-detect-huge-caverns-under-surface-of-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the Apollo missions over half a century ago, scientists have suspected that the lunar surface is riddled with an extensive network of tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>But despite our best efforts, they\u2019ve been unable to once and for all confirm their existence \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Trento in Italy have used cutting-edge data analysis tools to examine radar reflections to provide the \u201cfirst direct evidence of an accessible lava tube under the surface of the Moon,\u201d according to University of Trento professor Lorenzo Bruzzone, coauthor of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-024-02302-y\" class=\"\">new paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Apollo missions over half a century ago, scientists have suspected that the lunar surface is riddled with an extensive network of tunnels. But despite our best efforts, they\u2019ve been unable to once and for all confirm their existence \u2014 until now. Scientists at the University of Trento in Italy have used cutting-edge data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193002","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}