{"id":196851,"date":"2024-10-01T05:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/lunar-gravity-measurements-hint-at-a-partially-molten-mantle-layer"},"modified":"2024-10-01T05:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:24:47","slug":"lunar-gravity-measurements-hint-at-a-partially-molten-mantle-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/lunar-gravity-measurements-hint-at-a-partially-molten-mantle-layer","title":{"rendered":"Lunar gravity measurements hint at a partially molten mantle layer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lunar-gravity-measurements-hint-at-a-partially-molten-mantle-layer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know that beneath its crater-pocked silicate crust, the moon has an olivine mantle and a metallic core. Some research has also suggested that a partially molten layer may lie at the base of the otherwise solid mantle, sandwiched between it and the solid core. But other evidence disagrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that beneath its crater-pocked silicate crust, the moon has an olivine mantle and a metallic core. Some research has also suggested that a partially molten layer may lie at the base of the otherwise solid mantle, sandwiched between it and the solid core. But other evidence disagrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3807,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196851","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=196851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}