{"id":770151,"date":"2023-10-23T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770151"},"modified":"2023-10-23T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:00:36","slug":"the-moon-is-40-million-years-older-than-we-thought-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770151","title":{"rendered":"The moon is 40 million years older than we thought it was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new look at the age of zircon crystals in a lunar rock sample brought back by NASA&#8217;s Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has revealed that the moon formed at least 4.46 billion years ago&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2398867-the-moon-is-40-million-years-older-than-we-thought-it-was\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The moon is 40 million years older than we thought it was<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: New Scientist &#8211; Space&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new look at the age of zircon crystals in a lunar rock sample brought back by NASA&#8217;s Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has revealed that the moon formed at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770151","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=770151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770151\/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=770151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}