{"id":674355,"date":"2020-11-30T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674355"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:18:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:18:37","slug":"figuring-out-how-to-breathe-the-moons-regolith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674355","title":{"rendered":"Figuring out how to breathe the moon&#039;s regolith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxygen ranks right up there as one of the most important resources for use in space exploration. Not only is it a critical component of rocket fuel, it&#8217;s also necessary for astronauts to breathe anywhere outside Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Availability of this abundant resource isn&#8217;t a problem\u2014it&#8217;s widely available throughout the solar system. One place it is particularly prevalent is lunar regolith, the thin material layer that makes up the moon&#8217;s surface. The difficulty comes from one of the quirks of oxygen\u2014it bonds to almost everything.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-11-figuring-moon-regolith.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Figuring out how to breathe the moon&#8217;s regolith<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxygen ranks right up there as one of the most important resources for use in space exploration. Not only is it a critical component of rocket fuel, it&#8217;s also necessary&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674355","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=674355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674355\/revisions"}],"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=674355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}