{"id":140487,"date":"2022-06-12T18:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/james-webb-space-telescope-hit-by-a-micrometeoroid-larger-than-what-nasa-had-anticipated"},"modified":"2022-06-12T18:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:32:27","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-hit-by-a-micrometeoroid-larger-than-what-nasa-had-anticipated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/james-webb-space-telescope-hit-by-a-micrometeoroid-larger-than-what-nasa-had-anticipated","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope hit by a micrometeoroid, larger than what NASA had anticipated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-hit-by-a-micrometeoroid-larger-than-what-nasa-had-anticipated.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope <a title=\"The James Webb Space Telescope\" href=\"https:\/\/www.istockphoto.com\/photo\/james-webb-space-telescope-in-deep-space-research-far-galaxies-jwst-and-gaalxy-space-gm1365195660-436141394\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">dima_zel\/ iStock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between May 23 and 25, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was hit by a micrometeoroid that has impacted one of its primary mirror segments, <em>NASA<\/em> said in a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/webb\/2022\/06\/08\/webb-engineered-to-endure-micrometeoroid-impacts\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">recent update<\/a> on its website. The telescope continues to function at levels exceeding mission requirements.<\/p>\n<p>A meteoroid is a fragment of an asteroid and can be either large or small. A micrometeoroid, though, is a microscopic fragment of a meteoroid and is smaller than a grain of sand. NASA estimates that millions of meteoroids and micrometeoroids strike the Earth\u2019s atmosphere every day but most burn up due to the friction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope dima_zel\/ iStock Between May 23 and 25, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was hit by a micrometeoroid that has impacted one of its primary mirror segments, NASA said in a recent update on its website. The telescope continues to function at levels exceeding mission requirements. A meteoroid is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140487","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}