{"id":4703,"date":"2026-05-09T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:49:36","slug":"laser-beam-was-bounced-off-the-moons-surface-in-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4703","title":{"rendered":"Laser Beam Was Bounced off the Moon\u2019s Surface in 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12327 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lunar-Laser-e1744077688871.gif\" alt=\"Lunar Laser\" width=\"100\" height=\"124\" \/>Laser beam was bounced off the moon\u2019s surface successfully in 1962<\/strong>. Scientists from MIT illuminated a bit of the moon\u2019s surface. A lunar laser ranger from Apollo 11 helped refine future laser beams aimed at the moon. Scientists\u00a0have found that the moon is moving a bit away from the earth and that the moon has a liquid core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser beam was bounced off the moon\u2019s surface successfully in 1962. Scientists from MIT illuminated a bit of the moon\u2019s surface. A lunar laser ranger from Apollo 11 helped refine future laser beams aimed at the moon. Scientists\u00a0have found that the moon is moving a bit away from the earth and that the moon has <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4703' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4448,1952,1949,5526,1951,1950],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4448","tag-apollo-11","tag-laser-beam","tag-may-9","tag-mit","tag-moons-surface","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29470,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/29470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}