{"id":71264,"date":"2017-07-25T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T17:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/substantial-ocean-of-water-beneath-moons-surface-could-help-create-human-colony"},"modified":"2017-07-25T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T00:25:55","slug":"substantial-ocean-of-water-beneath-moons-surface-could-help-create-human-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/substantial-ocean-of-water-beneath-moons-surface-could-help-create-human-colony","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Substantial\u2019 ocean of water beneath moon\u2019s surface could help create human colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/substantial-ocean-of-water-beneath-moons-surface-could-help-create-human-colony2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists who retested mineral samples collected during the Apollo moon missions now believe there\u2019s a massive amount of water under the lunar surface \u2013 a discovery which may make manned missions to the moon easier than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Brown University in the US examined glass beads, a type of volcanic crystal gathered during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions in the 1970s, and found they contained similar volumes of water to Earth\u2019s basalt rock.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the study, which has been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ngeo2993.html?foxtrotcallback=true\">Nature Geoscience<\/a><strong>,<\/strong> cite the parallels as evidence that parts of the moon contain a similarly large amount of water. This, they believe, could be useful for future lunar missions as it means water could potentially be extracted rather than carried from home.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/397417-water-beneath-moon-surface\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/viral\/397417-water-beneath-moon-surface\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists who retested mineral samples collected during the Apollo moon missions now believe there\u2019s a massive amount of water under the lunar surface \u2013 a discovery which may make manned missions to the moon easier than previously thought. Researchers at Brown University in the US examined glass beads, a type of volcanic crystal gathered during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71264","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71272,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71264\/revisions\/71272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}