{"id":14259,"date":"2004-03-30T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/30\/aerogel\/"},"modified":"2004-03-30T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T13:19:00","slug":"aerogel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/30\/aerogel\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerogel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stardust.jpl.nasa.gov\/tech\/aerogel.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Aerogel\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/aerogel.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stardust.jpl.nasa.gov\/tech\/aerogel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aerogel<\/a> is a &ldquo;silicon-based solid with a porous, sponge-like structure in which 99.8 percent of the volume is empty space,&rdquo; resulting in the <a href=\"http:\/\/stardust.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news93.html\" target=\"_blank\">lightest solid material known to man<\/a>.  It was initially created as a means to trap cometary particles and interplanetary dust aboard the Stardust Spacecraft, since it can slow down and trap such particles without damaging them.  I know this is older news, but I came upon this  <a href=\"http:\/\/stardust.jpl.nasa.gov\/photo\/aerogel.html\" target=\"_blank\">photo gallery<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/stardust.jpl.nasa.gov\/overview\/faq.html#aerogel\" target=\"_blank\"><acronym title=\"Frequently Asked Questions\">FAQ<\/acronym><\/a> and was very intrigued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108058070366318759?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerogel is a &ldquo;silicon-based solid with a porous, sponge-like structure in which 99.8 percent of the volume is empty space,&rdquo; resulting in the lightest solid material known to man. It was initially created as a means to trap cometary particles and interplanetary dust aboard the Stardust Spacecraft, since it can slow down and trap such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/30\/aerogel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aerogel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}