{"id":226983,"date":"2025-12-12T07:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/earths-atmosphere-may-help-support-human-life-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:08:25","slug":"earths-atmosphere-may-help-support-human-life-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/earths-atmosphere-may-help-support-human-life-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s atmosphere may help support human life on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-atmosphere-may-help-support-human-life-on-the-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The moon\u2019s surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth\u2019s atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of life-sustaining substances for future astronauts. But scientists have only recently begun to understand how these particles make the long journey from Earth to the moon and how long the process has been taking place.<\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Rochester, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s43247-025-02960-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Communications Earth &amp; Environment<\/i>, shows that Earth\u2019s magnetic field may actually help guide atmospheric particles\u2014carried by solar wind\u2014into space, instead of blocking them. Because Earth\u2019s magnetic field has existed for billions of years, this process could have steadily moved particles from Earth to the moon over very long periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy combining data from particles preserved in lunar soil with computational modeling of how solar wind interacts with Earth\u2019s atmosphere, we can trace the history of Earth\u2019s atmosphere and its magnetic field,\u201d says Eric Blackman, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and a distinguished scientist at URochester\u2019s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon\u2019s surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth\u2019s atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of life-sustaining substances for future astronauts. But scientists have only recently begun to understand how these particles make the long journey from Earth to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226983","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=226983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}