{"id":95698,"date":"2019-09-02T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/nasa-space-probe-shot-an-asteroid-with-lasers"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:23:57","slug":"nasa-space-probe-shot-an-asteroid-with-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/nasa-space-probe-shot-an-asteroid-with-lasers","title":{"rendered":"NASA space probe shot an asteroid with lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-space-probe-shot-an-asteroid-with-lasers.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pew <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived at the diamond-shaped space rock known as Bennu a few months back, but not everything has gone completely to plan.<\/p>\n<p>The rock ended up being far more, well, dirty than NASA originally expected. Bennu\u2019s surface is absolutely packed with debris, posing a challenge for NASA\u2019s team that still has to decide where to have the probe touch down on the asteroid to collect samples. Now, using a laser instrument built into OSIRIS-REx, NASA has a detailed look at how dangerous the surface truly is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-feature\/goddard\/2019\/osiris-rex-captures-laser-3d-view-of-bennu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In a new blog post,<\/a> NASA explains how it used a tool called the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) to scan much of Bennu\u2019s surface. The instrument paints a 3D picture of the hard surfaces the laser bounces off of, giving NASA researchers a detailed glimpse at the asteroid\u2019s rocky surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pew face_with_colon_three NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx mission has been steadily progressing since the spacecraft arrived at the diamond-shaped space rock known as Bennu a few months back, but not everything has gone completely to plan. The rock ended up being far more, well, dirty than NASA originally expected. Bennu\u2019s surface is absolutely packed with debris, posing a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95698","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=95698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}