{"id":258471,"date":"2017-01-06T15:27:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c7bec4467412ebb446bd42d49289b92b"},"modified":"2017-01-06T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:27:54","slug":"nasa-study-finds-solar-storms-could-spark-soils-at-moons-poles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=258471","title":{"rendered":"NASA study finds solar storms could spark soils at moon&#8217;s poles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce &#8220;sparks&#8221; that could vaporize and melt the soil, perhaps as much as meteoroid impacts, according to NASA-funded research. This alteration may become evident when analyzing future samples from these regions that could hold the key to understanding the history of the moon and solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce &#8220;sparks&#8221; that could vaporize and melt the soil, perhaps as much as meteoroid impacts, according to NASA-funded research&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258472,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258471\/revisions\/258472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}