{"id":114786,"date":"2020-10-20T19:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-just-successfully-touched-down-on-an-asteroid"},"modified":"2020-10-20T19:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:30:18","slug":"nasa-just-successfully-touched-down-on-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-just-successfully-touched-down-on-an-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"NASA Just Successfully Touched Down on an Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A6K2dqCoin8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA just landed a spacecraft on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/asteroid\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"asteroid\">asteroid<\/a> and, if everything went as planned, sucked up a sample of dust and rock from the surface.<\/p>\n<p>From 200 million miles away, NASA and its engineering partner, Lockheed Martin, instructed the spacecraft to descend to the surface of a space rock called Bennu.<\/p>\n<p>In just 5 to 10 seconds, the probe should have collected samples from the asteroid\u2019s surface. It\u2019s set to bring these pieces of Bennu back to Earth later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA just landed a spacecraft on an asteroid and, if everything went as planned, sucked up a sample of dust and rock from the surface. From 200 million miles away, NASA and its engineering partner, Lockheed Martin, instructed the spacecraft to descend to the surface of a space rock called Bennu. In just 5 to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114786","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}