{"id":86564,"date":"2019-01-09T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/asteroid-circling-spacecraft-grabs-cool-snapshot-of-home"},"modified":"2019-01-09T12:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:22:58","slug":"asteroid-circling-spacecraft-grabs-cool-snapshot-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/asteroid-circling-spacecraft-grabs-cool-snapshot-of-home","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid-circling spacecraft grabs cool snapshot of home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-circling-spacecraft-grabs-cool-snapshot-of-home2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 An asteroid-circling spacecraft has captured a cool snapshot of home.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asteroidmission.org\/\">Osiris-Rex<\/a> spacecraft took the picture days before going into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny asteroid \u2014 barely one-third of a mile (500 meters) across \u2014 appears as a big bright blob in the long-exposure photo released last week. Seventy million miles (110 million kilometers) away, Earth appears as a white dot, with the moon an even smaller dot but still clearly visible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/de76da4abcc04c288109201c33e22a2c\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/de76da4abcc04c288109201c33e22a2c<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 An asteroid-circling spacecraft has captured a cool snapshot of home. NASA\u2019s Osiris-Rex spacecraft took the picture days before going into orbit around asteroid Bennu on New Year\u2019s Eve. The tiny asteroid \u2014 barely one-third of a mile (500 meters) across \u2014 appears as a big bright blob in the long-exposure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86564","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=86564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}