{"id":89399,"date":"2019-04-10T12:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-return-mission"},"modified":"2019-04-10T12:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:02:31","slug":"nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-return-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-return-mission","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-return-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This image from Flyby 1 of Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase shows the rocky surface of Bennu just south of the asteroid\u2019s equator. The PolyCam camera on NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took the image on March 7 from a distance of 3 miles. For scale, the cracked rock at the top is 69 ft long, about the length of 4 parallel parking spots.<\/p>\n<p>More details on the image: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2IpIKSG\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\">bit.ly\/2IpIKSG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OSIRISREx\/photos\/a.188106444635520\/2054401551339324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image from Flyby 1 of Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase shows the rocky surface of Bennu just south of the asteroid\u2019s equator. The PolyCam camera on NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took the image on March 7 from a distance of 3 miles. For scale, the cracked rock at the top is 69 ft long, about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89399","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}