{"id":89051,"date":"2019-03-30T03:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T10:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-moon-has-moving-water-but-dont-break-out-your-swimsuit"},"modified":"2019-03-30T03:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T10:42:26","slug":"the-moon-has-moving-water-but-dont-break-out-your-swimsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-moon-has-moving-water-but-dont-break-out-your-swimsuit","title":{"rendered":"The Moon Has \u2018Moving Water,\u2019 but Don\u2019t Break Out Your Swimsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-moon-has-moving-water-but-dont-break-out-your-swimsuit3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surprised I haven\u2019t seen more about this:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tabloids reported over the weekend that a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science\/1098182\/NASA-Moon-water-lunar-water-Lunar-Reconnaissance-Orbiter-moon-water-molecules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bombshell<\/a>\u201d report found moving water on the Moon which could lead to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/moon-colonization-possible-nasa-discovers-moving-water-lunar-surface-793634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moon colonization.<\/a>\u201d Obviously those headlines are misleading\u2014there are no rivers flowing along the lunar surface. Let\u2019s talk about what really happened.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a probe that has orbited the Moon since 2009, spotted water molecules being absorbed and released from grains of dust on the lunar surface throughout the day, based on the temperature. These results mark the only dataset recording the distribution of water during the lunar day, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1029\/2018GL081821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the paper<\/a> published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-moon-has-moving-water-but-dont-break-out-your-swim-1833202873\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-moon-has-moving-water-but-dont-break...1833202873<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprised I haven\u2019t seen more about this: Tabloids reported over the weekend that a \u201cbombshell\u201d report found moving water on the Moon which could lead to \u201cMoon colonization.\u201d Obviously those headlines are misleading\u2014there are no rivers flowing along the lunar surface. Let\u2019s talk about what really happened. NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a probe that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89051","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\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}