{"id":2705,"date":"2025-02-20T21:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2025-02-years-ranger-moon-photos-aid-html\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:56:03","slug":"2025-02-years-ranger-moon-photos-aid-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2025-02-years-ranger-moon-photos-aid-html\/","title":{"rendered":"60 years ago: Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>60 years ago: Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection<br \/>\n<!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their landing craft, a few believed a deep layer of dust covered it that would swallow any visitors. Until 1964, no closeup photographs of the lunar surface existed, only those obtained by Earth-based telescopes.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-02-years-ranger-moon-photos-aid.html\">Go to Source<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: <\/p>\n<div>Space exploration news and updates. Space missions and science news. Planet exploration and more.<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>SPACEPERIUM CORPS &#038; RESEARCH CONTRIBUTORS<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Please comment below with research and links for fellow members to conduct further research into this area.<br \/>\nYou must be registered and signed into SPACEPERIUM BLOG in order to leave your comment and get credited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60 years ago: Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitability-space-planetary-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}