{"id":114885,"date":"2020-10-22T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-shares-photos-from-touch-and-go-with-asteroid-bennu-200-million-miles-away"},"modified":"2020-10-22T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:27:19","slug":"nasa-shares-photos-from-touch-and-go-with-asteroid-bennu-200-million-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nasa-shares-photos-from-touch-and-go-with-asteroid-bennu-200-million-miles-away","title":{"rendered":"NASA Shares Photos from \u2018Touch-and-Go\u2019 with Asteroid Bennu 200 Million Miles Away"},"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\/LA6X3Yz-Vkc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photos of touching down on an asteroid.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On Tuesday, October 20th, NASA made history when the OSIRIS-REx mission successfully completed a \u201ctouch-and-go\u201d sample collection maneuver with asteroid 101955 Bennu over 200 million miles away from Earth. And now, we have the timelapse to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/osiris-rex-tags-surface-of-asteroid-bennu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a> a total of 82 images from spacecraft\u2019s SamCam imager covering the approach, the touchdown at sample sight Nightingale, and the \u201cback-away burn.\u201d The slideshow was captured over the course of approximately five minutes, and covers everything from about 82 feet (25 meters) above the asteroid, through the back-away burn, and up until the craft achieved an altitude of approximately 43 feet (13 meters), kicking up a lot of material along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of touching down on an asteroid. On Tuesday, October 20th, NASA made history when the OSIRIS-REx mission successfully completed a \u201ctouch-and-go\u201d sample collection maneuver with asteroid 101955 Bennu over 200 million miles away from Earth. And now, we have the timelapse to prove it. NASA shared a total of 82 images from spacecraft\u2019s SamCam [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114885","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=114885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}