{"id":132686,"date":"2025-07-12T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132686"},"modified":"2025-07-12T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:00:08","slug":"debate-rages-over-ancient-crater-after-china-returns-rocks-from-moons-far-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132686","title":{"rendered":"Debate rages over ancient crater after China returns rocks from moon\u2019s far side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA year after China returned the first rock samples from the moon\u2019s far side, scientists are debating whether the mission has answered a central question in lunar science \u2013 and whether the country\u2019s rising scientific dominance is challenging who gets to tell the story of the moon\u2019s past.<br \/>\nWhile a team of Chinese researchers believes they may have nailed down the age of the moon\u2019s largest and oldest crater \u2013 a colossal impact basin that could hold clues to the early solar system \u2013 other scientists,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3317868\/year-after-china-returns-rocks-moons-far-side-debate-rages-over-ancient-crater?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA year after China returned the first rock samples from the moon\u2019s far side, scientists are debating whether the mission has answered a central&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132686"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}