{"id":178500,"date":"2014-02-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_2443.html"},"modified":"2014-02-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:00:00","slug":"mariner-10s-first-close-up-photo-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=178500","title":{"rendered":"Mariner 10&#8217;s First Close-Up Photo of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 5, 1974, NASA&#8217;s Mariner 10 mission took this first close-up photo of Venus.<\/p>\n<p>\tMade using an ultraviolet filter in its imaging system, the photo has been color-enhanced to bring out Venus&#8217;s cloudy atmosphere as the human eye would see it. Venus is perpetually blanketed by a thick veil of clouds high in carbon dioxide and its surface temperature approaches 900 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>\tLaunched on Nov. 3, 1973 atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket, Mariner 10 flew by Venus in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>\tImage Credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 5, 1974, NASA&#8217;s Mariner 10 mission took this first close-up photo of Venus.<\/p>\n<p>\tMade using an ultraviolet filter in its imaging system, the photo has been color-enhanced to bring out Venus&#8217;s cloudy atmosphere as the human eye would see it. Venus is perpetually blanketed by a thick veil of clouds high in carbon dioxide and its surface temperature approaches 900 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>\tLaunched on Nov. 3, 1973 atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket, Mariner 10 flew by Venus in 1974.<\/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-178500","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\/178500","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=178500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219070,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178500\/revisions\/219070"}],"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=178500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}