{"id":82899,"date":"2018-09-22T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/japans-rovers-send-pictures-from-asteroid"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:17:42","slug":"japans-rovers-send-pictures-from-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/japans-rovers-send-pictures-from-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s rovers send pictures from asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-rovers-send-pictures-from-asteroid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hayabusa-2:! Japan\u2019s space agency (JAXA) has made history by successfully landing two robotic explorers on the surface of an asteroid. The two small \u201crovers\u201d, which were despatched from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft on Friday, will move around the 1km-wide space rock known as Ryugu. The asteroid\u2019s low gravity means they can hop across it, capturing temperatures and images of the surface. \u201cBoth rovers are in good condition,\u201d the agency confirmed on Saturday\u2026here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-45598156\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-45598156<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Pictures have emerged from the surface of an asteroid after Japan landed two robotic rovers on it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-45598156\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-45598156<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayabusa-2:! Japan\u2019s space agency (JAXA) has made history by successfully landing two robotic explorers on the surface of an asteroid. The two small \u201crovers\u201d, which were despatched from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft on Friday, will move around the 1km-wide space rock known as Ryugu. The asteroid\u2019s low gravity means they can hop across it, capturing temperatures [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82899","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83026,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82899\/revisions\/83026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}