{"id":797310,"date":"2025-07-17T04:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797310"},"modified":"2025-07-17T04:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:13:03","slug":"nasa-tests-scientific-instruments-in-arizona-crater-ahead-of-moon-landing-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797310","title":{"rendered":"NASA tests scientific instruments in Arizona crater ahead of moon landing attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>NASA wants to land Artemis astronauts on the moon next year, but the scientific instruments they&#8217;ll bring must be tested on Earth. The best place to do that is a mile-wide meteorite crater in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/17\/nx-s1-5468542\/nasa-tests-scientific-instruments-in-arizona-crater-ahead-of-moon-landing-attempt?rand=771664\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA wants to land Artemis astronauts on the moon next year, but the scientific instruments they&#8217;ll bring must be tested on Earth. The best place to do that is a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797310","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=797310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}