{"id":491287,"date":"2018-06-27T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=96a2c03f3a9ef4c1eba3055c2239df69"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:56:55","slug":"japans-hayabusa2-spacecraft-arrives-at-its-asteroid-destination-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=491287","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Arrives At Its Asteroid Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/06\/27\/ryugu-asteroid_wide-e6ad65b5985f1fcd661058298328154005020617.jpg?s=600' alt='Asteroid Ryugu, photographed on June 26 by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, was the Japanese mission's destination. The craft will travel alongside the asteroid for 18 months.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The mission includes a plan to bring a sample back to Earth. It&#8217;s the first time humans have been able to study a C-type asteroid at such a close range for an extended period.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo and collaborators)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=623864130' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission includes a plan to bring a sample back to Earth. It&#8217;s the first time humans have been able to study a C-type asteroid at such a close range for an extended period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491287","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491288,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491287\/revisions\/491288"}],"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=491287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}