{"id":121322,"date":"2018-01-02T12:07:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T06:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=121322"},"modified":"2018-01-02T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T06:37:03","slug":"121322-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/121322-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to touch the Sun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA is turning 60 in 2018 and the agency is looking forward to launching a slew of important missions in the coming year, including one to &#8220;touch&#8221; the Sun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NASA&#8217;s Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for launch in 2018 to explore the Sun&#8217;s outer atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The probe will use Venus&#8217; gravity during seven flybys over nearly seven years to gradually bring its orbit closer to the Sun, according to a NASA statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121323 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spp_observingsun2_custom-7283b41021b58c578478b27f2d12be1e1e5dc6d2-s900-c85.jpg\" alt=\"NASA to touch the Sun!\" width=\"718\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spp_observingsun2_custom-7283b41021b58c578478b27f2d12be1e1e5dc6d2-s900-c85.jpg 900w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spp_observingsun2_custom-7283b41021b58c578478b27f2d12be1e1e5dc6d2-s900-c85-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spacecraft will fly through the Sun&#8217;s atmosphere as close as 6.2 million kilometres to the star&#8217;s surface, well within the orbit of Mercury and closer than any spacecraft has gone before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Parker Solar Probe will perform its scientific investigations in a hazardous region of intense heat and solar radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is turning 60 in 2018 and the agency is looking forward to launching a slew of important missions in the coming year, including one to &#8220;touch&#8221; the Sun. NASA&#8217;s Parker Solar Probe is scheduled for launch in 2018 to explore the Sun&#8217;s outer atmosphere. The probe will use Venus&#8217; gravity during seven flybys over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62194,62195,13661,62192,62191,62193,33638,62190],"class_list":["post-121322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-6-2-million-kilometres","tag-heat-and-solar-radiation","tag-nasa","tag-nasa-statement","tag-nasas-parker-solar-probe","tag-orbit-of-mercury","tag-sun","tag-touch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Untitled-3-copy-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}