{"id":194357,"date":"2024-08-11T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nasa-shuts-down-neowise-asteroid-hunter-after-almost-15-years-in-space"},"modified":"2024-08-11T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T12:25:50","slug":"nasa-shuts-down-neowise-asteroid-hunter-after-almost-15-years-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/nasa-shuts-down-neowise-asteroid-hunter-after-almost-15-years-in-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA shuts down NEOWISE asteroid hunter after almost 15 years in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-shuts-down-neowise-asteroid-hunter-after-almost-15-years-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NEOWISE mission has been an extraordinary success story as it helped us better understand our place in the universe by tracking asteroids and comets that could be hazardous for us on Earth,\u201d Nicola Fox, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are sad to see this brave mission come to an end, we are excited for the future scientific discoveries it has opened by setting the foundation for the next generation planetary defense telescope,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>NEOWISE launched in December 2009 with a different name and a different mission. Originally called WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), the probe scanned the entire infrared sky over the course of a seven-month prime mission. It did so \u201cwith far greater sensitivity than previous surveys,\u201d NASA officials wrote in the same statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe NEOWISE mission has been an extraordinary success story as it helped us better understand our place in the universe by tracking asteroids and comets that could be hazardous for us on Earth,\u201d Nicola Fox, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, said in a statement on Thursday. \u201cWhile we are sad [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194357","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=194357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}