{"id":705861,"date":"2021-10-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=705861"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T16:00:00","slug":"nasa-mission-helps-solve-a-mystery-why-are-some-asteroid-surfaces-rocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=705861","title":{"rendered":"NASA Mission Helps Solve a Mystery: Why Are Some Asteroid Surfaces Rocky?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists thought Bennu&#8217;s surface was like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, which would have been perfect for collecting samples. But when NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at Bennu in late 2018, the mission saw a surface covered in boulders.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/nasa-mission-helps-solve-a-mystery-why-are-some-asteroid-surfaces-rocky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA Mission Helps Solve a Mystery: Why Are Some Asteroid Surfaces Rocky?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Goddard Center&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists thought Bennu&#8217;s surface was like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, which would have been perfect for collecting samples. But when NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goddard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705861","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705861\/revisions"}],"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=705861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}