{"id":220935,"date":"2025-08-25T16:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/using-microbes-to-mine-the-moon"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:14:45","slug":"using-microbes-to-mine-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/using-microbes-to-mine-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Using Microbes to Mine the Moon"},"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\/Z57KVe7Hb5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmp.com\/scishow\">https:\/\/www.jmp.com\/scishow<\/a> to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky bodies like moons, asteroids, and comets are chock full of resources, from water, to helium-3, to rare earth elements. But how can we access them? Some scientists have proposed using microbes to aid in the mining of certain metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https:\/\/www.jmp.com\/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Rocky bodies like moons, asteroids, and comets are chock full of resources, from water, to helium-3, to rare earth elements. But how can we access them? Some scientists have proposed using microbes to aid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220935","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}