{"id":85586,"date":"2020-07-07T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16250"},"modified":"2020-07-07T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T08:00:46","slug":"explained-nasa-research-says-the-moon-is-more-metallic-than-thought-before-what-this-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-nasa-research-says-the-moon-is-more-metallic-than-thought-before-what-this-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: NASA research says the Moon is more metallic than thought before.What this means"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>NASA has found evidence of greater quantities of metals such as iron and titanium on the Moon\u2019s subsurface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The metallic distribution was observed by the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO) spacecraft.<\/li><li><strong>Significance of the study: <\/strong>The observations could help in drawing a clearer connection between Earth and the Moon as it is believed that moon was created after Mars-sized protoplanet collided with Earth breaking off a piece of our planet that went on to become its satellite.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Mission: <\/strong>Launched in 2009, it is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon.<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To<strong> <\/strong>make a 3D map of the moon&#8217;s surface from lunar polar orbit to help identify sites with high scientific value, favourable terrain and the environment necessary for safe future robotic and human lunar missions.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: NASA has found evidence of greater quantities of metals such as iron and titanium on the Moon\u2019s subsurface. Facts: The metallic distribution was observed by the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO) spacecraft. Significance of the study: The observations could help in drawing a clearer connection between Earth and the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-nasa-research-says-the-moon-is-more-metallic-than-thought-before-what-this-means\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: NASA research says the Moon is more metallic than thought before.What this means<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2968,1117,580],"class_list":["post-85586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-lunar-orbiter-mission","tag-moon","tag-nasa","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704896016},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}