{"id":4739,"date":"2016-03-29T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2016-04-04T01:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T05:54:34","slug":"a-new-spin-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-new-spin-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"A new spin on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4740\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PressReleaseFigure_3-1024x528.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4740\" class=\"wp-image-4740\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PressReleaseFigure_3-1024x528.png\" alt=\"Maps of lunar polar hydrogen (a proxy for water ice). The hydrogen abundance maxima (white dots) are offset significantly from the present north and south pole, and are inferred to be ancient lunar spin poles. (Image Credit: James Tuttle Keane)\" width=\"582\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maps of lunar polar hydrogen (a proxy for water ice). The hydrogen abundance maxima (white dots) are offset significantly from the present north and south pole, and are inferred to be ancient lunar spin poles. (Image Credit: James Tuttle Keane)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The moon once rotated on a different axis than the one it does today, according to researchers. Polar hydrogen deposits are located near the Moon\u2019s poles, however their location is inconsistent with where ice would be expected to form with the current thermal environment of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that the Moon\u2019s polar hydrogen deposits are directly opposite each other and are located at an equal distance from where they would be expected to form, only in opposite directions. Researchers believe this shows the Moon\u2019s axis of rotation has shifted by about six degrees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature17166\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March\u00a023<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Matthew Siegler, Planetary Science Institute, Arizona, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">James Keane, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon once rotated on a different axis than the one it does today, according to researchers. Polar hydrogen deposits are located near the Moon\u2019s poles, however their location is inconsistent with where ice would be expected to form with the current thermal environment of the moon. Researchers found that the Moon\u2019s polar hydrogen deposits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2523,533],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-moon","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1er","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}