{"id":114451,"date":"2020-10-15T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-is-getting-ready-to-land-on-an-asteroid-that-may-hold-the-building-blocks-of-life"},"modified":"2020-10-15T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:36:27","slug":"nasa-is-getting-ready-to-land-on-an-asteroid-that-may-hold-the-building-blocks-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-is-getting-ready-to-land-on-an-asteroid-that-may-hold-the-building-blocks-of-life","title":{"rendered":"NASA is getting ready to land on an asteroid that may hold the building blocks of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-is-getting-ready-to-land-on-an-asteroid-that-may-hold-the-building-blocks-of-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/air-and-space\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> getting ready to land a spacecraft on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/air-and-space\/asteroids\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid<\/a> Bennu in just a few short days, the mysterious space rock is already revealing some of its secrets, including the presence of carbon-bearing materials.<\/p>\n<p>Several studies were published on the matter in the journals <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/370\/6513\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/6\/41\" target=\"_blank\">Science Advances<\/a>, noting that carbon-bearing, organic material is \u201cwidespread\u201d on the surface of the asteroid. This includes the area where NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will take its first sample from, known as Nightingale, on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe abundance of carbon-bearing material is a major scientific triumph for the mission. We are now optimistic that we will collect and return a sample with organic material \u2013 a central goal of the OSIRIS-REx mission,\u201d said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2002\/osiris-rex-unlocks-more-secrets-from-asteroid-bennu\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With NASA getting ready to land a spacecraft on the asteroid Bennu in just a few short days, the mysterious space rock is already revealing some of its secrets, including the presence of carbon-bearing materials. Several studies were published on the matter in the journals Science and Science Advances, noting that carbon-bearing, organic material is [\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-114451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114451","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=114451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}