{"id":3926957,"date":"2026-07-13T22:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/most-of-the-moons-water-likely-remains-chemically-bound-in-its-deep-interior\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:01:22","slug":"most-of-the-moons-water-likely-remains-chemically-bound-in-its-deep-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/most-of-the-moons-water-likely-remains-chemically-bound-in-its-deep-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"Most of the moon&#8217;s water likely remains chemically bound in its deep interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the moon was that it was anhydrous; that it had extraordinarily little water. That all began to change in 2009 with new data from NASA&#8217;s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and the much-ballyhooed evidence of water ice in the moon&#8217;s permanently shaded polar regions (PSRs).<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-moon-chemically-bound-deep-interior.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the moon was that it was anhydrous; that it had extraordinarily little water. That all began to change in 2009 with new data from NASA&#8217;s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and the much-ballyhooed evidence of water ice [&#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-3926957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}