{"id":197544,"date":"2013-05-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"5f7948d77010f40744dc8366b6512cf6"},"modified":"2013-05-06T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T10:00:00","slug":"last-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=197544","title":{"rendered":"Last Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/05\/last_sun\/12663751-1-eng-GB\/Last_Sun_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe remote Antarctic base Concordia enjoying its last sunset for almost four months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA sponsors a medical research doctor in Concordia every winter to study the long-term effects of isolation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe base is 3200 m above sea level and temperatures drop to \u201380\u00b0C. No supplies can be delivered during the Antarctic winter and nobody can leave the base, no matter what emergency.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe station is the closest thing on Earth to interplanetary exploration. Studying the effects of isolation there is preparing ESA for the real thing: a mission to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/05\/last_sun\/12663751-1-eng-GB\/Last_Sun_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe remote Antarctic base Concordia enjoying its last sunset for almost four months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA sponsors a medical research doctor in Concordia every winter to study the long-term effects of isolation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe base is 3200 m above sea level and temperatures drop to \u201380\u00b0C. No supplies can be delivered during the Antarctic winter and nobody can leave the base, no matter what emergency.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe station is the closest thing on Earth to interplanetary exploration. Studying the effects of isolation there is preparing ESA for the real thing: a mission to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197544","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}