{"id":682105,"date":"2021-02-24T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=682105"},"modified":"2021-02-24T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:52:00","slug":"esa-plans-mission-to-explore-lunar-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=682105","title":{"rendered":"ESA plans mission to explore lunar caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Entering_a_lunar_lava_tube_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Entering a lunar lava tube\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a first step towards uncovering the Moon&#8217;s subterranean secrets, in 2019 we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Preparing_for_the_Future\/Discovery_and_Preparation\/Seeking_innovative_ideas_for_exploring_lunar_caves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">asked for your ideas<\/a> to detect, map and explore lunar caves. Five ideas were selected to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Preparing_for_the_Future\/Discovery_and_Preparation\/En_route_to_exploring_lunar_caves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">studied in more detail<\/a>, each addressing different phases of a potential mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Preparing_for_the_Future\/Discovery_and_Preparation\/ESA_plans_mission_to_explore_lunar_caves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA plans mission to explore lunar caves<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first step towards uncovering the Moon&#8217;s subterranean secrets, in 2019 we asked for your ideas to detect, map and explore lunar caves. Five ideas were selected to be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682106,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682105","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\/682105","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=682105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/682106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}