{"id":32750,"date":"2013-09-07T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T09:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=32750"},"modified":"2013-09-07T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T09:14:27","slug":"nasa-sends-unmanned-rocket-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=32750","title":{"rendered":"NASA sends unmanned rocket to the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-orbiter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32748\" alt=\"moon-orbiter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-orbiter.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-orbiter.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-orbiter-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-orbiter-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>NASA launched an unmanned rocket to the moon Friday night to study its lunar atmosphere and environment.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-foot rocket carrying the orbiter was expected to be visible to much of the eastern U.S. seaboard when it launched from Virginia, officials said earlier<\/p>\n<p>It launched at 11:27 p.m. ET at the Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island.<\/p>\n<p>The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer is designed to &#8220;orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust,&#8221; NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A thorough understanding of these characteristics will address long-standing unknowns, and help scientists understand other planetary bodies as well,&#8221; NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed LADEE, it is expected to reach the moon on October 6.<\/p>\n<p>Earth&#8217;s distance from the moon is between 223,700 miles to 251,700 miles depending on the moon&#8217;s position, the space agency says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA launched an unmanned rocket to the moon Friday night to study its lunar atmosphere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}