{"id":135,"date":"2003-11-18T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T00:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:42","slug":"ice-skating-on-moon-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"ice skating on moon unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To the disappointment of future lunar colonists  everywhere, the moon may have much less water than previously thought.  Observations from NASA&#8217;s Lunar Prospector orbiter a few years back had  fueled hopes that thick layers of ice, which could have been mined for  water, existed in deep, sunless craters at the moon&#8217;s frigid poles. A  new study, however, suggests their existence is unlikely. Bruce Campbell  of the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies  and colleagues used the huge radar telescope at Puerto Rico&#8217;s Arecibo  Observatory to probe deeper into the polar craters than ever before, and  report in the Nov. 13 <em>Nature<\/em> that they did not come up with the  telltale signature for thick ice deposits. They write, &#8220;Any lunar ice  present within regions visible to the Arecibo radar must therefore be in  the form of distributed grains or thin layers,&#8221; which would make  extracting water and establishing a permanent base a much harder  proposition than once hoped. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 11\/18\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the disappointment of future lunar colonists everywhere, the moon may have much less water than previously thought. Observations from NASA&#8217;s Lunar Prospector orbiter a few years back had fueled hopes that thick layers of ice, which could have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}