{"id":122641,"date":"2021-05-16T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T19:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/video-of-nasa-probe-landing-on-asteroid-is-otherworldly"},"modified":"2021-05-16T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T19:23:18","slug":"video-of-nasa-probe-landing-on-asteroid-is-otherworldly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/video-of-nasa-probe-landing-on-asteroid-is-otherworldly","title":{"rendered":"Video of NASA Probe Landing on Asteroid Is Otherworldly"},"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\/5dA15GCrAXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>NASA Goddard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The most striking aspect of the approach\u2014for our money, anyway\u2014is the way Bennu feels like a small world; rather than just a 1600-foot-wide <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/asteroid-size-comparison-video-planet\/\">hunk of rock<\/a>. There\u2019s plenty of space on Bennu\u2019s surface to jump around. And one could even leap off the surface, enter into orbit around the asteroid, and then touch back down. The space probe, in fact, captured rocks doing just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Goddard The most striking aspect of the approach\u2014for our money, anyway\u2014is the way Bennu feels like a small world; rather than just a 1600-foot-wide hunk of rock. There\u2019s plenty of space on Bennu\u2019s surface to jump around. And one could even leap off the surface, enter into orbit around the asteroid, and then touch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122641","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=122641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}