{"id":93807,"date":"2019-07-17T15:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/nasa-probe-snaps-closest-and-most-detailed-photos-of-asteroid-ever-captured"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:42:26","slug":"nasa-probe-snaps-closest-and-most-detailed-photos-of-asteroid-ever-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/nasa-probe-snaps-closest-and-most-detailed-photos-of-asteroid-ever-captured","title":{"rendered":"NASA probe snaps closest and most detailed photos of asteroid ever captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-probe-snaps-closest-and-most-detailed-photos-of-asteroid-ever-captured2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the dark and lonely place that is space, NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx mission has managed to reach a new level of proximity as it studies an asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>After a manoeuvre, the spacecraft in NASA\u2019s asteroid study mission is orbiting closer to a planetary body than any spacecraft has ever come, the space agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The mission recently entered a new phase where the spacecraft will orbit about 2,231 feet above the asteroid Bennu\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the dark and lonely place that is space, NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx mission has managed to reach a new level of proximity as it studies an asteroid. After a manoeuvre, the spacecraft in NASA\u2019s asteroid study mission is orbiting closer to a planetary body than any spacecraft has ever come, the space agency said. The mission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93807","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=93807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}