{"id":116727,"date":"2020-12-05T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/jaxas-hayabusa2-asteroid-sample-return-capsule-lands-in-australia"},"modified":"2020-12-05T18:22:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T02:22:28","slug":"jaxas-hayabusa2-asteroid-sample-return-capsule-lands-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/jaxas-hayabusa2-asteroid-sample-return-capsule-lands-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"JAXA\u2019s Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return capsule lands in Australia"},"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\/Pwjvg_-7Ayw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hayabusa2\u2019s sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia, today, 5 December \u2014 or 6 December local time at Woomera<b>. <\/b>The exact landing location is now being determined, but a tweet from the mission\u2019s official account says an estimated location of landing has been identified and teams are en route to recover it.<\/p>\n<p>The craft returned not just asteroid surface material, but subsurface material (at first) as well, and will be met by Japanese scientists after completing its six-year mission to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu.<\/p>\n<p>The main Hayabusa2 spacecraft meanwhile used its remaining propellant to start an extended, 11 year astronomical mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayabusa2\u2019s sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia, today, 5 December \u2014 or 6 December local time at Woomera. The exact landing location is now being determined, but a tweet from the mission\u2019s official account says an estimated location of landing has been identified and teams are en route to recover it. The craft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116727","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}