{"id":215525,"date":"2025-12-29T00:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215525\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:57:06","slug":"let-jules-verne-crater-on-the-moon-be-a-new-point-nemo-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215525\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Jules Verne crater on the moon be a new Point Nemo | The moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do hope countries agree to use the Jules Verne crater on the far side of the moon as a spacecraft graveyard to crash defunct equipment as they use Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean as a spacecraft cemetery (Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers, 22 December<\/a>).
Kartar Uppal
Streetly, West Midlands<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, at the time of the nuclear incident in Ukraine, I was driving to the Suffolk coast, passing through Leiston, the nearest town to the Sizewell power station, upon whose town sign some wag had scrawled \u201cTwinned with Chernobyl\u201d (Letters, 26 December<\/a>).
Margaret Philip
Scole, Norfolk<\/p>\n

We laughed when John Prescott said<\/a> that the green belt was \u201ca Labour achievement, and we mean\u00a0to build on it\u201d. We are not laughing now (Sport stars \u2018deeply concerned\u2019 playing fields will be lost under planning reforms, 22 December<\/a>).
Jude Carr
London<\/p>\n

All over the country, volunteer fundraisers have been collecting to the music of Chris Rea (Obituary, 22 December<\/a>). Thanks, Chris \u2013 enjoy the drive home.
Hilary Alder
Woking, Surrey<\/p>\n

I want to know why some choose a hill on which to die while others make their last stand\u00a0in a ditch (The hill I will die on: Being late can be the height of good manners and decorum, actually, 24 December<\/a>). Is it just geography?
Peter Gray
Chesterfield, Derbyshire<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump class\u201d? Now there\u2019s an oxymoron (Trump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as \u2018Trump-class\u2019, 22 December<\/a>).
Adrian Riley
Sheffield<\/p>\n

Thank you for your moving obituary of Muriel Manning<\/a> in the print edition this week (Other\u00a0lives, 22 December). This sort of article is why I read the Guardian.
Nigel Linford
Eastbourne, East Sussex <\/p>\n

Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please email<\/a> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I do hope countries agree to use the Jules Verne crater on the far side of the moon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-215525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}