{"id":109677,"date":"2020-07-08T11:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasa-teases-psyche-a-robot-to-explore-an-asteroid-worth-more-than-our-global-economy"},"modified":"2020-07-08T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:03:48","slug":"nasa-teases-psyche-a-robot-to-explore-an-asteroid-worth-more-than-our-global-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasa-teases-psyche-a-robot-to-explore-an-asteroid-worth-more-than-our-global-economy","title":{"rendered":"NASA Teases \u2018Psyche,\u2019 A Robot To Explore An Asteroid Worth More Than Our Global Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-teases-psyche-a-robot-to-explore-an-asteroid-worth-more-than-our-global-economy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is about to begin building its latest spacecraft. Called \u201cPsyche\u201d it will explore a 140 miles\/226 kilometers-wide asteroid called \u201c16 Psyche.\u201d Today it\u2019s passed a major milestone.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why is NASA going to \u201816 Psyche?\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Located in the Solar System\u2019s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, metal-rich 16 Psyche is thought to be the exposed metallic iron, nickel and gold core of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protoplanet\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protoplanet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"protoplanet\">protoplanet<\/a>. Most asteroids are rocky or icy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is about to begin building its latest spacecraft. Called \u201cPsyche\u201d it will explore a 140 miles\/226 kilometers-wide asteroid called \u201c16 Psyche.\u201d Today it\u2019s passed a major milestone. Why is NASA going to \u201816 Psyche?\u2019 Located in the Solar System\u2019s main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, metal-rich 16 Psyche is thought to be the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}