{"id":302177,"date":"2017-04-17T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2b5927df91495161dca4cecc293ad43c"},"modified":"2017-04-17T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:55:36","slug":"nasa-team-explores-using-lisa-pathfinder-as-comet-crumb-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=302177","title":{"rendered":"NASA team explores using LISA Pathfinder as &#8216;comet crumb&#8217; detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Now a team of NASA scientists hopes to take advantage of the spacecraft&#8217;s record-breaking sensitivity to map out the distribution of tiny dust particles shed by asteroids and comets far from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ripples in space-time called gravitational waves&#8230;<\/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-302177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302177","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=302177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302178,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302177\/revisions\/302178"}],"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=302177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}