{"id":201016,"date":"2024-12-08T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/15-years-later-earths-most-advanced-planetary-defense-system-ends-in-a-fiery-reentry"},"modified":"2024-12-08T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T04:23:06","slug":"15-years-later-earths-most-advanced-planetary-defense-system-ends-in-a-fiery-reentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/15-years-later-earths-most-advanced-planetary-defense-system-ends-in-a-fiery-reentry","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Later, Earth\u2019s Most Advanced Planetary Defense System Ends In A Fiery Reentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/15-years-later-earths-most-advanced-planetary-defense-system-ends-in-a-fiery-reentry3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEOWISE contributed to planetary defense efforts with its research to catalog near-Earth objects. Over the past decade, it helped <a href=\"https:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/masatoshi-toshi-hirabayashi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">planetary defenders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astro.umd.edu\/people\/ykim1231.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">like us<\/a> and our colleagues study near-Earth objects.<\/p>\n<p>NEOWISE was a game-changing mission, as it revolutionized how to survey near-Earth objects.<\/p>\n<p>The NEOWISE mission <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/0004-6256\/140\/6\/1868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">continued to use the spacecraft<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/neowise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">NASA\u2019s WISE mission<\/a>, which ran from late 2009 to 2011 and conducted an <a href=\"https:\/\/wise2.ipac.caltech.edu\/docs\/release\/allsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">all-sky infrared survey<\/a> to detect not only near-Earth objects but also distant objects such as galaxies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEOWISE contributed to planetary defense efforts with its research to catalog near-Earth objects. Over the past decade, it helped planetary defenders like us and our colleagues study near-Earth objects. NEOWISE was a game-changing mission, as it revolutionized how to survey near-Earth objects. The NEOWISE mission continued to use the spacecraft from NASA\u2019s WISE mission, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201016","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}