{"id":292254,"date":"2017-03-24T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=471d568276ca88192835fc6b8a1c7984"},"modified":"2017-03-24T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T14:30:09","slug":"osiris-rex-asteroid-search-tests-instruments-science-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=292254","title":{"rendered":"OSIRIS-REx asteroid search tests instruments, science team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an almost two-week search, NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx mission team activated the spacecraft&#8217;s MapCam imager and scanned part of the surrounding space for elusive Earth-Trojan asteroids\u2014objects that scientists believe may exist in one of the stable regions that co-orbits the sun with Earth. Although no Earth-Trojans were discovered, the spacecraft&#8217;s camera operated flawlessly and demonstrated that it could image objects two magnitudes dimmer than originally expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an almost two-week search, NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx mission team activated the spacecraft&#8217;s MapCam imager and scanned part of the surrounding space for elusive Earth-Trojan asteroids&mdash;objects that scientists believe may exist in one of the stable regions that co-orbits the sun with Earth. Although no Earth-Trojans were discovered, the spacecraft&#8217;s camera operated flawlessly and demonstrated that it could image objects two magnitudes dimmer than originally expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292255,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292254\/revisions\/292255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}