{"id":215181,"date":"2025-06-01T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/twin-spacecraft-mission-reveals-there-might-be-a-hot-side-of-the-moon"},"modified":"2025-06-01T15:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:20:57","slug":"twin-spacecraft-mission-reveals-there-might-be-a-hot-side-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/twin-spacecraft-mission-reveals-there-might-be-a-hot-side-of-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Twin spacecraft mission reveals there might be a \u2018hot\u2019 side of the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/twin-spacecraft-mission-reveals-there-might-be-a-hot-side-of-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The moon\u2019s nearside (that is, the side facing Earth) is dark-colored and dominated by ancient lava flows, whereas the farside is more rugged\u2014and NASA researchers now suggest it\u2019s due to a wonky lunar interior. Using data from twin spacecraft named Ebb and Flow, they found a 2\u20133% difference in the moon mantle\u2019s ability to deform on each side. They say this data could be explained by the nearest hemisphere\u2019s insides being up to 170\u00b0C hotter than the farside.<\/p>\n<p>The detection of differences between the moon\u2019s interior in the near and far hemispheres is reported in Nature this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon\u2019s nearside (that is, the side facing Earth) is dark-colored and dominated by ancient lava flows, whereas the farside is more rugged\u2014and NASA researchers now suggest it\u2019s due to a wonky lunar interior. Using data from twin spacecraft named Ebb and Flow, they found a 2\u20133% difference in the moon mantle\u2019s ability to deform [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215181","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=215181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}