{"id":147991,"date":"2022-10-11T21:24:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T02:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasa-dart-imagery-shows-changed-orbit-of-target-asteroid"},"modified":"2022-10-11T21:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T02:24:20","slug":"nasa-dart-imagery-shows-changed-orbit-of-target-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasa-dart-imagery-shows-changed-orbit-of-target-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"NASA DART Imagery Shows Changed Orbit of Target Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-dart-imagery-shows-changed-orbit-of-target-asteroid3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft\u2019s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid\u2019s orbit. This marks humanity\u2019s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology. Images such as the below helped scientists understand the orbit change resulting from DART\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft\u2019s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid\u2019s orbit. This marks humanity\u2019s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147991","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}