{"id":100,"date":"2009-07-01T18:07:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T01:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike-brinker.com\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-07-01T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T01:14:55","slug":"lcross-nasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/lcross-nasa-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"LCROSS Nasa mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/LCROSS\/lunarswingby\/index.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/365075main_swingby_goddard_2_226.jpg?resize=226%2C170\" title=\"moon swingby photo\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is running a new project called LCROSS.  The idea is that they want to crash land a probe onto the moon in order to look for particulate matter related to ice and water.  The mission is rather interesting and it has one neat side effect that i wanted to share with you.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the probe will be so great that it will send a plum of moon matter into space.  So big in fact that you can see it from earth!  Awesome.  That&#8217;s the kind of science I like to see, blow up or crash something into  a large lunar surface.  Color me excited!  If you want to get the whole scoop, here&#8217;s the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/lcross.arc.nasa.gov\/observation.htm\">NASA&#8217;s site<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/quest\/radio\/crashing-landing\">KQED public radio news story over in their Quest section<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and the important information that I always forget!  \ud83d\ude42  The date and time should be October 9, 2009 at 11:30 UT (7:30 a.m. EDT, 4:30 a.m. PDT), +\/- 30 minutes.  Check the site for updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is running a new project called LCROSS. The idea is that they want to crash land a probe onto the moon in order to look for particulate matter related to ice and water. The mission is rather interesting and it has one neat side effect that i wanted to share with you. The impact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/lcross-nasa-mission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LCROSS Nasa mission<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3JQ0E-1C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoz.wri.temporary.site\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}