{"id":158261,"date":"2023-02-16T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nanotech-away-missions-picogram-scale-probes-to-explore-nearby-stars"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:25:56","slug":"nanotech-away-missions-picogram-scale-probes-to-explore-nearby-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nanotech-away-missions-picogram-scale-probes-to-explore-nearby-stars","title":{"rendered":"Nanotech Away Missions: Picogram-scale Probes To Explore Nearby Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanotech-away-missions-picogram-scale-probes-to-explore-nearby-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a forward-looking article, George Church, PhD, from Harvard University and the Wyss Institute, proposes the use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that can land, replicate, and produce a communications module at the destination to explore nearby stars.<\/p>\n<p>The fascinating new article is published in a special issue on \u201cInterstellar Objects in Astrobiology\u201d of the peer-reviewed journal Astrobiology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne design is a highly reflective light sail, traveling a long straight line toward the gravitational well of a destination star, and the photo-deflected to the closest non-luminous mass \u2013 ideally a planet or moon with exposed liquid water,\u201d states Dr. Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a forward-looking article, George Church, PhD, from Harvard University and the Wyss Institute, proposes the use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that can land, replicate, and produce a communications module at the destination to explore nearby stars. The fascinating new article is published in a special issue on \u201cInterstellar Objects in Astrobiology\u201d of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158261","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}