{"id":4353,"date":"2021-12-14T16:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:15:10","slug":"bracing-for-impact-dart-launch-could-be-key-step-forward-in-planetary-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/bracing-for-impact-dart-launch-could-be-key-step-forward-in-planetary-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Bracing for impact: DART launch could be key step forward in planetary defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DART_zoom_no_NEXTC-768x354.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s latest launch into outer space is going to make an impact. In fact, that\u2019s its entire mission.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all part of a long-term planetary defense strategy to avoid an \u201cArmageddon\u201d scenario, and NAU planetary scientist Cristina Thomas is part of the team studying this event.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/dart-launch\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s latest launch into outer space is going to make an impact. In fact, that\u2019s its entire mission. It\u2019s all part of a long-term planetary defense strategy to avoid an \u201cArmageddon\u201d scenario, and NAU planetary scientist Cristina Thomas is part of the team studying this event. Read more here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[191,208],"class_list":["post-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science","tag-dart","tag-planetary-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}