{"id":3923489,"date":"2026-01-07T22:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/lunar-spacecraft-exhaust-could-obscure-clues-to-origins-of-life\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:03:36","slug":"lunar-spacecraft-exhaust-could-obscure-clues-to-origins-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/lunar-spacecraft-exhaust-could-obscure-clues-to-origins-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar spacecraft exhaust could obscure clues to origins of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Over half of the exhaust methane from lunar spacecraft could end up contaminating areas of the moon that might otherwise yield clues about the origins of Earthly life, according to a recent study. The pollution could unfold rapidly regardless of a spacecraft&#8217;s touchdown site; even for a landing at the South Pole, methane molecules may &#8220;hop&#8221; across the lunar surface to the North Pole in under two lunar days.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-lunar-spacecraft-exhaust-obscure-clues.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over half of the exhaust methane from lunar spacecraft could end up contaminating areas of the moon that might otherwise yield clues about the origins of Earthly life, according to a recent study. The pollution could unfold rapidly regardless of a spacecraft&#8217;s touchdown site; even for a landing at the South Pole, methane molecules may [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}