{"id":86779,"date":"2019-01-18T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/this-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-was-shot-from-71-million-miles-away"},"modified":"2019-01-18T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T22:02:20","slug":"this-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-was-shot-from-71-million-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/this-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-was-shot-from-71-million-miles-away","title":{"rendered":"This Photo of Earth and the Moon Was Shot from 71 Million Miles Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-was-shot-from-71-million-miles-away3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a new photo that shows Earth and the Moon from a whopping 71 million miles away. It was captured by NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx, which is currently on a mission to obtain a sample from a near-Earth asteroid and return it to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was captured on December 19th, 2018, using the spacecraft\u2019s NavCam 1 camera. Earth and the moon can be seen on the bottom-left side of the photo. The much larger white object in the upper-right side is asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n<p>Earth is 71 million miles (114M km) away in the photo, while Bennu is just 27 miles (43 km).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2019\/01\/17\/this-photo-of-earth-and-the-moon-was-just-shot-from-71-million-miles-away\/\">https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2019\/01\/17\/this-photo-of-earth-and-the...iles-away\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a new photo that shows Earth and the Moon from a whopping 71 million miles away. It was captured by NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx, which is currently on a mission to obtain a sample from a near-Earth asteroid and return it to Earth. The photo was captured on December 19th, 2018, using the spacecraft\u2019s NavCam 1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86779","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=86779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}