{"id":114149,"date":"2020-10-11T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/tour-of-the-asteroid-bennu"},"modified":"2020-10-11T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T08:05:00","slug":"tour-of-the-asteroid-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/tour-of-the-asteroid-bennu","title":{"rendered":"Tour of the Asteroid Bennu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tour-of-the-asteroid-bennu.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OSIRISREx\/?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAw52TMsV9hJXuUsjNAAwDl1rnCybojjyG24k8kOqGjniAbfjk_H81IlUY5ounUJlH9ubsI2NkE64v3X6TeHikzxjajhisyVDe3oAUkBgZjhg7KfCco4wsGpYte8dYSiTvSSLud5eGQqXx9a_9wlO3JST8tpPDPdr3f10LzKOpN0Q9F9_n2UndHNMJk6nkp6rOP2FEOmpjK3RhqAMN1oFsMUQr19JYgdVcc1bgC7bx7LK0OmsweqSQTVNiK4t42BW-TSghFbdM6aZHPcnIIfCerM668r1-lUG3QwQT0is1dIR6ek2GIooNuyda-RoenghmJBmATO7fedx1vqfUaGmy8uWYjOA&__tn__=K-R\">NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission<\/a> now knows much more about the material it will be collecting in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Goddard\u2019s Amy Simon found that carbon-bearing, organic material is widespread on the asteroid\u2019s surface, including at the mission\u2019s primary sample site, Nightingale, where OSIRIS-REx will make its first sample collection attempt on Oct.20.<\/p>\n<p>These and other findings indicate that hydrated minerals and organic material will likely be present in the collected sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission now knows much more about the material it will be collecting in just a few weeks. Goddard\u2019s Amy Simon found that carbon-bearing, organic material is widespread on the asteroid\u2019s surface, including at the mission\u2019s primary sample site, Nightingale, where OSIRIS-REx will make its first sample collection attempt on Oct.20. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114149","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}