{"id":220628,"date":"2025-08-21T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/apollo-17-samples-reveal-new-clues-to-ancient-lunar-landslide-mystery"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:20:07","slug":"apollo-17-samples-reveal-new-clues-to-ancient-lunar-landslide-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/apollo-17-samples-reveal-new-clues-to-ancient-lunar-landslide-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 17 samples reveal new clues to ancient lunar landslide mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pZofiLhz2EU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moon\u2019s time capsule: Apollo-era rock core sample tells tale of ancient landslide.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA intentionally set aside a significant portion of this haul for future study, a decision now paying off.<\/p>\n<p>The rock core was studied using advanced micro-CT scanning to analyze its contents in fine detail, an imaging technology that didn\u2019t exist when the samples were first brought back.<\/p>\n<p>The new research focused on clasts, fragments broken off from the mountain during the landslide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon\u2019s time capsule: Apollo-era rock core sample tells tale of ancient landslide. NASA intentionally set aside a significant portion of this haul for future study, a decision now paying off. The rock core was studied using advanced micro-CT scanning to analyze its contents in fine detail, an imaging technology that didn\u2019t exist when the samples [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220628","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}