{"id":367599,"date":"2017-08-29T18:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9506049a907f7daee62e95a0b91d7fd1"},"modified":"2017-08-29T18:36:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:36:57","slug":"u-s-spacecraft-readies-for-fiery-plunge-into-saturn-after-13-year-mission-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=367599","title":{"rendered":"U.S. spacecraft readies for fiery plunge into Saturn after 13-year mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. space agency&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft will end its 13-year mission to Saturn in mid-September by transmitting data until the final moment before it plunges into the ringed planet&#8217;s atmosphere, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Pji8jIsQz08:RVsahSweni8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Pji8jIsQz08:RVsahSweni8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=Pji8jIsQz08:RVsahSweni8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Pji8jIsQz08:RVsahSweni8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=Pji8jIsQz08:RVsahSweni8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/Pji8jIsQz08\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. space agency&#8217;s Cassini spacecraft will end its 13-year mission to Saturn in mid-September by transmitting data until the final moment before it plunges into the ringed planet&#8217;s atmosphere, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367599","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367600,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367599\/revisions\/367600"}],"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=367599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}