{"id":168623,"date":"2012-12-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_2406.html"},"modified":"2012-12-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:00:00","slug":"helios-a-solar-probe-at-launch-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=168623","title":{"rendered":"Helios-A Solar Probe At Launch Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Helios-A solar probe launched on Dec. 10, 1974 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>\tAs it looped around the Sun in an orbit that took it from Earth&#8217;s orbit (1 AU from the Sun) to about 0.3 AU from the Sun and back again, Helios-A studied the solar wind, magnetic and electric fields, cosmic rays, and dust in interplanetary space. It flew within 47 million km of the Sun at a speed of 238,000 km per hour, the closest any human-made object had been. Its data indicated the presence of 15 times more micrometeorites close to the Sun than there are near Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\tImage Credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Helios-A solar probe launched on Dec. 10, 1974 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>\tAs it looped around the Sun in an orbit that took it from Earth&#8217;s orbit (1 AU from the Sun) to about 0.3 AU from the Sun and back again, Helios-A studied the solar wind, magnetic and electric fields, cosmic rays, and dust in interplanetary space. It flew within 47 million km of the Sun at a speed of 238,000 km per hour, the closest any human-made object had been. Its data indicated the presence of 15 times more micrometeorites close to the Sun than there are near Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\tImage Credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224953,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168623\/revisions\/224953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}