{"id":624468,"date":"2019-07-18T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624468"},"modified":"2019-07-18T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:15:00","slug":"powering-the-future-with-lunar-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624468","title":{"rendered":"Powering the future with lunar soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Future_Moon_base_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nBuilding a lunar base would be one of the next logical steps in our exploration of the Solar System, but the survival of a future crew depends on access to a reliable source of energy. An ESA Discovery &amp; Preparation study explored how lunar regolith \u2013 the dust, soil and rock on the Moon&#8217;s surface \u2013 could be used to store heat and provide electricity for future astronauts, rovers and landers.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Preparing_for_the_Future\/Discovery_and_Preparation\/Powering_the_future_with_lunar_soil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Powering the future with lunar soil<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a lunar base would be one of the next logical steps in our exploration of the Solar System, but the survival of a future crew depends on access to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624469,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624468","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/624469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=624468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}