{"id":30573,"date":"2016-09-27T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T03:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-study-a-martian-meteorite-with-a-little-help-from-3d-printing"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:12:42","slug":"scientists-study-a-martian-meteorite-with-a-little-help-from-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-study-a-martian-meteorite-with-a-little-help-from-3d-printing","title":{"rendered":"Scientists study a Martian meteorite with a little help from 3D printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-study-a-martian-meteorite-with-a-little-help-from-3d-printing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 3D-printing company is aiding NASA by using its additive manufacturing technology to create an accurate replica of a meteorite located 34 million miles from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring approximately 2 feet in length, the meteorite known as Block Island was first discovered on Mars by the <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/mer\/newsroom\/pressreleases\/20090810a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Exploration Rover Opportunity in 2009<\/a>. Studying it is an important part of furthering our knowledge about Mars and other planets, but at present the prospect of bringing it to Earth to examine u close is out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Mars rover was able to take images and measurements to transmit back home, and this data has now been used by <a href=\"http:\/\/mcortechnologies.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mcor Technologies<\/a>, an Ireland-based 3D-printing company, to create a life-size Block Island model.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/3d-printing-mars-meteorite\/\">http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/3d-printing-mars-meteorite\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3D-printing company is aiding NASA by using its additive manufacturing technology to create an accurate replica of a meteorite located 34 million miles from Earth. Measuring approximately 2 feet in length, the meteorite known as Block Island was first discovered on Mars by the Exploration Rover Opportunity in 2009. Studying it is an important [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66128,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573\/revisions\/66128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}