{"id":201678,"date":"2024-12-15T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/making-marss-moons-supercomputers-offer-disruptive-new-explanation"},"modified":"2024-12-15T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T20:23:41","slug":"making-marss-moons-supercomputers-offer-disruptive-new-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/making-marss-moons-supercomputers-offer-disruptive-new-explanation","title":{"rendered":"Making Mars\u2019s Moons: Supercomputers offer \u2018Disruptive\u2019 New Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-marss-moons-supercomputers-offer-disruptive-new-explanation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How did Mars get its moons? The first step, the findings say, may have involved the destruction of an asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by Jacob Kegerreis, a postdoctoral research scientist at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in California\u2019s Silicon Valley, found that an asteroid passing near Mars could have been disrupted\u2014a nice way of saying \u201cripped apart\u201d\u2014by the red planet\u2019s strong gravitational pull.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is published in the journal Icarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How did Mars get its moons? The first step, the findings say, may have involved the destruction of an asteroid. The research team, led by Jacob Kegerreis, a postdoctoral research scientist at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201678","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}