{"id":768957,"date":"2023-10-12T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=768957"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:01:00","slug":"how-to-make-roads-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=768957","title":{"rendered":"How to make roads on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Paved_surfaces_around_a_Moon_base_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Paved surfaces around a Moon base\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When astronauts return to the lunar surface they are probably going to be doing more driving than walking \u2013 but to keep billowing moondust at bay they are going to need roads. An ESA project reported in today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nature Scientific Reports<\/a> tested the creation of roadworthy surfaces by melting simulated moondust with a powerful laser.<\/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\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/How_to_make_roads_on_the_Moon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How to make roads on the Moon<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When astronauts return to the lunar surface they are probably going to be doing more driving than walking \u2013 but to keep billowing moondust at bay they are going to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768958,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768957","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\/768957","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=768957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/768958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}