{"id":129237,"date":"2015-12-22T20:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T03:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/and-now-for-a-bit-of-moon-science.html"},"modified":"2015-12-25T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T23:28:50","slug":"and-now-for-a-bit-of-moon-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/and-now-for-a-bit-of-moon-science.html","title":{"rendered":"And now for a bit of Moon science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to the Chinese for their discovery. Nicely done.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Ray Radlein<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/dec\/22\/new-type-of-moon-rock-discovered-by-chinese-lunar-lander'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yBWP9THmA9S5FhLnWI9X-nor0ApmTeXhwowJDHqa6wcHfgzJIA_AyGA6hDhoMSuQaaX9GLfSx9AFT2-UsS8wpVNM3hB2QE-9-Y_JMFHiwxIMSz5q8_zPzQO8l091fqpuWPVM7g3xF1-E1DYkWwE35e2hZiSPO_pL9yyFJo2uWN9UzFT2uT9PaLrwXKK4BDG68vysgfiANx1EDrqWRYpb-BXbvW6OVJcXPQNhGLXMZNKB8g6C5mfSc4_upwI=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/dec\/22\/new-type-of-moon-rock-discovered-by-chinese-lunar-lander'>New type of moon rock discovered by Chinese lunar lander<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Yutu rover, part of the Chang&rsquo;e-3 unmanned lunar mission, has identified a type of basalt unlike anything collected by previous Soviet or US missions\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/8q69KaP9b9a'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to the Chinese for their discovery. Nicely done. Originally shared by +Ray Radlein: New type of moon rock discovered by Chinese lunar lander The Yutu rover, part of the Chang&rsquo;e-3 unmanned lunar mission, has identified a type of basalt unlike anything collected by previous Soviet or US missions View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137762,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/the-moons-a-balloon-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":129237,"position":0},"title":"&quot;The Moon&#039;s A Balloon&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Feb-19 7:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This Chinese lunar satellite pic is really cool, both for its view of the far side of the moon and for it's perspective shot of Earth in the background. 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