{"id":71230,"date":"2017-07-24T18:31:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T01:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/moons-interior-may-hold-way-more-water-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:20:26","slug":"moons-interior-may-hold-way-more-water-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/moons-interior-may-hold-way-more-water-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"Moon\u2019s interior may hold way more water than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moons-interior-may-hold-way-more-water-than-we-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously, scientists from Brown detected trace amounts of water in similar volcanic samples \u2014 which are composed of loose material or \u201cglass beads\u201d \u2014 brought back to Earth from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/12771-nasa-apollo-missions-photo-countdown.html\">Apollo 15 and 17 missions<\/a>. However, the Apollo samples were not collected from the large pyroclastic deposits mapped using the satellite data in the recent study. This brought into question whether the Apollo samples represent a large portion of the moon\u2019s \u201cwet\u201d interior or if they represent only a small water-rich region within an otherwise \u201cdry\u201d mantle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/moon-express-reveals-bold-new-plan-explore-solar-system-ncna782361\">Related: Moon Express Reveals Bold New Plan to Explore Solar System<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work shows that nearly all of the large pyroclastic deposits also contain water, so this seems to be a common characteristic of magmas that come from the deep lunar interior,\u201d Milliken said. \u201cThat is, most of the mantle of the moon may be \u2018wet.\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/moon-s-interior-may-hold-way-more-water-we-thought-ncna786026?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_mc\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/moon-s-interior-may-hol...d_nn_fb_mc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, scientists from Brown detected trace amounts of water in similar volcanic samples \u2014 which are composed of loose material or \u201cglass beads\u201d \u2014 brought back to Earth from the Apollo 15 and 17 missions. However, the Apollo samples were not collected from the large pyroclastic deposits mapped using the satellite data in the recent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71230","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71248,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71230\/revisions\/71248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}