{"id":193963,"date":"2024-08-02T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-pin-down-the-origins-of-the-moons-tenuous-atmosphere"},"modified":"2024-08-02T22:30:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:30:36","slug":"scientists-pin-down-the-origins-of-the-moons-tenuous-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scientists-pin-down-the-origins-of-the-moons-tenuous-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"Scientists pin down the origins of the moon\u2019s tenuous atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-pin-down-the-origins-of-the-moons-tenuous-atmosphere3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the 1980s, astronomers have observed a very thin layer of atoms bouncing over the moon\u2019s surface. This delicate atmosphere\u2014technically known as an \u201cexosphere\u201d\u2014is likely a product of some kind of space weathering. But exactly what those processes might be has been difficult to pin down with any certainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the 1980s, astronomers have observed a very thin layer of atoms bouncing over the moon\u2019s surface. This delicate atmosphere\u2014technically known as an \u201cexosphere\u201d\u2014is likely a product of some kind of space weathering. But exactly what those processes might be has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193963","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=193963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}