{"id":1880,"date":"2013-04-25T05:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T05:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2013-04-25T05:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T05:50:44","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-moons-missing-mantle-ejecta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of the Moon’s missing mantle ejecta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Spudis explains that the Apollo lunar samples, seismic station measurements, and other data have not solved some fundamental issues regarding the Moon’s crust, mantle, and impact craters: Thin Crust Moon – The Once and Future Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Spudis explains that the Apollo lunar samples, seismic station measurements, and other data have not solved some fundamental issues regarding the Moon’s crust, mantle, and impact craters: Thin Crust Moon – The Once and Future Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-uk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2550,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2550","url_meta":{"origin":1880,"position":0},"title":"GRAIL spacecraft expose origin of lunar mass concentrations","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A release from NASA: NASA's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft. 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