{"id":25214,"date":"2016-04-29T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T06:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/nasa-now-has-new-options-for-sampling-moons-ancient-interior"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:09:10","slug":"nasa-now-has-new-options-for-sampling-moons-ancient-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/nasa-now-has-new-options-for-sampling-moons-ancient-interior","title":{"rendered":"NASA Now Has New Options For Sampling Moon\u2019s Ancient Interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-now-has-new-options-for-sampling-moons-ancient-interior.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The odds are now better than ever that future explorers, both robotic and human, will be able to take samples of the lunar\u2019s hidden interior in deep impact basins like Crisium and Moscoviense. This gives planners more options on where to embed the first science colony.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Finding and sampling the Moon\u2019s ancient interior mantle \u2014 one of the science drivers for sending robotic spacecraft and future NASA astronauts to the Moon\u2019s South Pole Aitken basin \u2014 is just as likely achievable at similar deep impact basins scattered around the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s the view reached by planetary scientists who have been analyzing the most recent data from NASA\u2019s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) and its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) missions as well as from Japan\u2019s SELENE (Kaguya) lunar orbiter.<\/p>\n<p>The consensus is that the lunar crust is actually thinner than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/04\/30\/nasa-now-has-new-options-for-sampling-moons-ancient-interior\/#59f438052ac1\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/04\/30\/nasa-no...f438052ac1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odds are now better than ever that future explorers, both robotic and human, will be able to take samples of the lunar\u2019s hidden interior in deep impact basins like Crisium and Moscoviense. This gives planners more options on where to embed the first science colony. Finding and sampling the Moon\u2019s ancient interior mantle \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50658,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25214\/revisions\/50658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}