{"id":8513,"date":"2022-07-18T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:55:00","slug":"does-space-trash-ever-naturally-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/?p=8513","title":{"rendered":"Does Space Trash Ever Naturally Break Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenewsforstudents.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1440_space_junk_cleanup_feat-1027x580.jpg\" width=\"1027\" height=\"580\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1027px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1027\/580;\"><\/p>\n<p>Remember when Elon Musk launched a car into space? That car\u2019s not just peacefully drifting through a vacuum \u2014 it\u2019s hurtling around the sun at 63,592 miles per hour, being bombarded by solar radiation. It might be in pieces, but these are not the same pieces it would be in if it were down here on Earth. That\u2019s because the environment in space breaks down materials differently. But how long does it take to break down, and how is that car looking right about now\u2026?<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\"><iframe title=\"Day in the Life of a Forward Member\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_h8QvIoSTsE?feature=oembed&#038;showinfo=0&#038;rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;playsinline=1&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Elon Musk launched a car into space? That car\u2019s not just peacefully drifting through a vacuum \u2014 it\u2019s hurtling around the sun at 63,592 miles per hour, being bombarded by solar radiation. It might be in pieces, but these are not the same pieces it would be in if it were down here&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":8515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencenewsforstudents.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1440_space_junk_cleanup_feat-1027x580.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Does Space Trash Ever Naturally Break Down?","footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8514,"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions\/8514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceandplanetarynewswire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}