{"id":116733,"date":"2020-12-06T03:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/it-was-a-beautiful-fireball-japan-space-capsule-carrying-astroid-samples-lands-in-australia"},"modified":"2020-12-06T03:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T11:22:38","slug":"it-was-a-beautiful-fireball-japan-space-capsule-carrying-astroid-samples-lands-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/it-was-a-beautiful-fireball-japan-space-capsule-carrying-astroid-samples-lands-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was a beautiful fireball\u201d: Japan space capsule carrying astroid samples lands in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/it-was-a-beautiful-fireball-japan-space-capsule-carrying-astroid-samples-lands-in-australia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only the second time pristine astroid material has been brought back to Earth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A Japanese space capsule carrying asteroid samples <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"landed in a remote area of Australia\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haya2e_jaxa\/status\/1335312265961074688\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haya2e_jaxa\/status\/1335312265961074688\" target=\"_blank\">landed in a remote area of Australia<\/a> as planned Saturday, <a class=\"\" data-vars-link-text=\"Japan's space agency, JAXA, said\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haya2e_jaxa\/status\/1335312265961074688\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haya2e_jaxa\/status\/1335312265961074688\" target=\"_blank\">Japan\u2019s space agency, JAXA, said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters <\/strong>via Axios\u2019 Miriam Kramer:<strong> <\/strong>It\u2019s only the second time pristine asteroid material has been brought back to Earth. Sample return missions like this one are incredibly valuable to scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s only the second time pristine astroid material has been brought back to Earth. A Japanese space capsule carrying asteroid samples landed in a remote area of Australia as planned Saturday, Japan\u2019s space agency, JAXA, said. Why it matters via Axios\u2019 Miriam Kramer: It\u2019s only the second time pristine asteroid material has been brought back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116733","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}