{"id":704435,"date":"2021-10-08T07:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=704435"},"modified":"2021-10-08T07:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:17:56","slug":"newly-returned-moon-rock-samples-chronicle-the-dying-days-of-lunar-volcanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=704435","title":{"rendered":"Newly returned moon rock samples chronicle the dying days of lunar volcanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billions of years ago, lakes of lava on the surface of the moon eventually dried to form the vast dark patches\u2014the lunar maria\u2014visible today on the lunar nearside. Now, thanks to rock samples recently returned to Earth by China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e 5 mission, scientists have a new estimate for when one of the last of those lava flows ran dry.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-10-newly-moon-samples-chronicle-dying.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Newly returned moon rock samples chronicle the dying days of lunar volcanism<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billions of years ago, lakes of lava on the surface of the moon eventually dried to form the vast dark patches\u2014the lunar maria\u2014visible today on the lunar nearside. Now, thanks&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-704435","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\/704435","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=704435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704435\/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=704435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}