{"id":777071,"date":"2024-02-12T21:47:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=777071"},"modified":"2024-02-12T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T02:47:54","slug":"why-moon-missions-in-2024-could-reveal-both-our-history-and-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=777071","title":{"rendered":"Why moon missions in 2024 could reveal both our history and our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">\u201cEarthrise\u201d, an image taken during an orbit of the moon as part of the Apollo 8 mission<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which resident space expert Leah Crane journeys through the solar system and beyond. You can sign up for Launchpad for free\u00a0here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2024 is going to be all about moons \u2013 there are a lot of missions to Earth\u2019s moon, Europa Clipper is heading to Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa and there\u2019s even a mission to observe the asteroid moon Dimorphos.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2411411-why-moon-missions-in-2024-could-reveal-both-our-history-and-our-future\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEarthrise\u201d, an image taken during an orbit of the moon as part of the Apollo 8 mission NASA The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad newsletter, in which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777071","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\/777071","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=777071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}