{"id":510452,"date":"2026-04-03T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510452\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:32:08","slug":"nasa-given-demonstration-of-robotic-space-rock-lab-in-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510452\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA given demonstration of robotic space rock lab in Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The DWI&#8217;s protection of samples is key, as the UoL said any organisms from Earth could prevent scientists from detecting any extra-terrestrial signs of life in rocks brought back from space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lab also offers so-called &#8220;planetary protection&#8221; as it could prevent any extra-terrestrial life from posing a risk to Earth&#8217;s ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The robotics offer a higher level of precision than human hands, which the UoL said could speed up the release of results to the scientific community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NASA&#8217;s visit to the UK also included a trip to two London-based DWI project subcontractors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These were, curation experts The Natural History Museum, and containment specialists at the Francis Crick Institute, whose labs work with highly infectious viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DWI&#8217;s protection of samples is key, as the UoL said any organisms from Earth could prevent scientists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-510452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}