{"id":372504,"date":"2017-09-11T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c52bf70f4a5c4286a1342c864d3716e9"},"modified":"2017-09-11T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T17:08:00","slug":"cassini-spacecraft-prepares-for-a-fiery-farewell-in-saturns-atmosphere-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=372504","title":{"rendered":"Cassini Spacecraft Prepares For A Fiery Farewell In Saturn&#8217;s Atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/09\/11\/pia14934_wide-6f67b58fe67089fc8121e50585c40d6178b359b4.jpg?s=600' alt='NASA's Cassini probe has orbited Saturn for over a decade. This Friday, scientists will steer it into the gas giant's atmosphere.'\/><\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s probe has spent the past 13 years orbiting Saturn, making a number of important discoveries along the way. On Friday, it will hurl itself into the planet&#8217;s atmosphere and disintegrate.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=549448180' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s probe has spent the past 13 years orbiting Saturn, making a number of important discoveries along the way. On Friday, it will hurl itself into the planet&#8217;s atmosphere and disintegrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372504","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372505,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372504\/revisions\/372505"}],"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=372504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}