{"id":1089,"date":"2017-01-05T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:44:23","slug":"arizona-linked-programs-chosen-by-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"Arizona-Linked Programs Chosen by NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/417449\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/kjzz.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Artist%E2%80%99s%20conception%20of%20the%20Lucy%20.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lucy spacecraft flies by a Jupiter Trojan asteroid. Illustration by Peter Rubin &#8211; SwRI and SSL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Discovery Program has selected two projects, both with Arizona ties, to delve into the ancient history of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>One craft, Psyche, will head to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The other, Lucy, will explore six asteroids that share an orbit with Jupiter. Scientists believe that the targets embody different aspects of early solar system history.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/417449\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Funds 2 Asteroid Missions With Arizona Ties<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Discovery Program has selected two projects, both with Arizona ties, to delve into the ancient history of the solar system. One craft, Psyche, will head to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The other, Lucy, will explore six asteroids that share an orbit with Jupiter. Scientists believe that the targets embody different aspects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arizona-Linked Programs Chosen by NASA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,94,4,121,74,3,57,13],"tags":[1193,1191,79,1195,1196,1194,1190,83,130,1192],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-engineering","category-history","category-imaging","category-physics","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-arizona-state-university","tag-lucy","tag-nasa","tag-near-earth-object","tag-neocam","tag-planetary-science-institute","tag-psyche","tag-remote-sensing","tag-robotics","tag-southwest-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}