{"id":5576,"date":"2008-08-11T21:19:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T03:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2008-08-11T21:19:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T03:19:05","slug":"nasa-to-dive-bomb-moon-with-robot-look-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/nasa-to-dive-bomb-moon-with-robot-look-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to Dive Bomb Moon with Robot, Look for Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/lunarimpact_strip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/lunarimpact_strip.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lunarimpact_strip\" width=\"500\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5577\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nSometime between May and August 2009, depending on launch dates, the booster stage for NASA&#8217;s LCROSS probe will deliberately crash into a permanently-shadowed lunar crater at 9,000 km\/hr, producing an explosion equivalent to about 2,000 pounds of TNT (6.5 billion joules). <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/11aug_lcross.htm?list1007936\" class=\"external external_icon\">The blast will jettison material out of the crater into broad daylight where astronomers can search the debris for signs of lunar water<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/11aug_lcross.htm?list1007936\" class=\"external external_icon\">science@nasa<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime between May and August 2009, depending on launch dates, the booster stage for NASA&#8217;s LCROSS probe will deliberately crash into a permanently-shadowed lunar crater at 9,000 km\/hr, producing an explosion equivalent to about 2,000 pounds of TNT (6.5 billion joules). The blast will jettison material out of the crater into broad daylight where astronomers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,9,77],"tags":[103,101,435,208,434,220],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-robots","category-science","category-the-future","tag-awesome","tag-cool","tag-lcross","tag-moon","tag-ramming-speed","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}