{"id":93452,"date":"2019-07-11T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/japans-hayabusa2-probe-makes-perfect-touchdown-on-asteroid"},"modified":"2019-07-11T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:23:27","slug":"japans-hayabusa2-probe-makes-perfect-touchdown-on-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/japans-hayabusa2-probe-makes-perfect-touchdown-on-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Hayabusa2 probe makes \u2018perfect\u2019 touchdown on asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-hayabusa2-probe-makes-perfect-touchdown-on-asteroid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Hayabusa2 probe made a \u201cperfect\u201d touchdown Thursday on a distant asteroid, collecting samples from beneath the surface in an unprecedented mission that could shed light on the origins of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve collected a part of the solar system\u2019s history,\u201d project manager Yuichi Tsuda said at a jubilant press conference hours after the successful landing was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never gathered sub-surface material from a celestial body further away than the Moon,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Hayabusa2 probe made a \u201cperfect\u201d touchdown Thursday on a distant asteroid, collecting samples from beneath the surface in an unprecedented mission that could shed light on the origins of the solar system. \u201cWe\u2019ve collected a part of the solar system\u2019s history,\u201d project manager Yuichi Tsuda said at a jubilant press conference hours after the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93452","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}