{"id":3924132,"date":"2026-02-25T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/apollo-moon-rocks-reveal-lunar-magnetic-field-was-briefly-stronger-than-earths\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:03:30","slug":"apollo-moon-rocks-reveal-lunar-magnetic-field-was-briefly-stronger-than-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/apollo-moon-rocks-reveal-lunar-magnetic-field-was-briefly-stronger-than-earths\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo moon rocks reveal lunar magnetic field was briefly stronger than Earth&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the moon&#8217;s magnetic field. For decades, scientists have argued about whether the moon had a strong or weak magnetic field during its early history (3.5\u20134 billion years ago). Now a new analysis, published in Nature Geoscience, shows that both sides of the debate are effectively correct.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-apollo-moon-reveal-lunar-magnetic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have resolved a long-standing debate about the strength of the moon&#8217;s magnetic field. For decades, scientists have argued about whether the moon had a strong or weak magnetic field during its early history (3.5\u20134 billion years ago). Now a new analysis, published in Nature Geoscience, [&#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-3924132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924132","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=3924132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}