{"id":555147,"date":"2018-12-10T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a13e9966c8f4fe190c615f9cbec1c97a"},"modified":"2018-12-10T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:23:26","slug":"osiris-rex-discovers-water-on-asteroid-confirms-bennu-as-excellent-mission-target-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=555147","title":{"rendered":"OSIRIS-REx discovers water on asteroid, confirms Bennu as excellent mission target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From August through early December, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aimed three of its science instruments toward Bennu and began making the mission&#8217;s first observations of the asteroid. During this period, the spacecraft traveled the last 1.4 million miles (2.2 million km) of its outbound journey to arrive at a spot 12 miles (19 km) from Bennu on Dec. 3. The science obtained from these initial observations confirmed many of the mission team&#8217;s ground-based observations of Bennu and revealed several new surprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From August through early December, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aimed three of its science instruments toward Bennu and began making the mission&#8217;s first observations of the asteroid. During this period, the spacecraft traveled the last 1.4 million miles &#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-555147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555147","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=555147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555148,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555147\/revisions\/555148"}],"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=555147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}