{"id":2373,"date":"2013-05-20T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2013-05-20T21:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T21:50:36","slug":"bright-impact-on-moon-seen-from-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Bright impact on Moon seen from earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/marshall\/news\/lunar\/program_overview.html\" target=\"_d\">Lunar Impact Monitoring program<\/a> spotted a bright impact on the Moon last week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science20.com\/news_articles\/explosion_moon-112512\" target=\"_d\">Explosion On The Moon &#8211; science20.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/05\/moon-explosion\/\" target=\"_d\">Watch the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen on the Moon &#8211; Wired Science\/Wired.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This NASA ScienceCast video shows the resulting explosion:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IYloGuUZCFM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Lunar Impact Monitoring program spotted a bright impact on the Moon last week: Explosion On The Moon &#8211; science20.com Watch the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen on the Moon &#8211; Wired Science\/Wired.com This NASA ScienceCast video shows the resulting explosion:<\/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-2373","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-Ch","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17610,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17610","url_meta":{"origin":2373,"position":0},"title":"Space Science: Planetary rover update, Martian slope streaks, Lunar eclipse flash","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Some space science items of interest: ** Planetary rover update: January 22, 2019 | Behind The Black - Bob Zimmerman reports on the status and plans for the Mars rovers and the Chinese Yutu-2 rover on the Moon. 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