{"id":210807,"date":"2013-07-17T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"24dba3a95e0b1564cf664ff2eaed8036"},"modified":"2013-07-17T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T11:30:00","slug":"proba-2-x-cam-image-of-typhoon-soulik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=210807","title":{"rendered":"Proba-2 X-Cam image of Typhoon Soulik"},"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\/07\/proba-2_x-cam_image_of_typhoon_soulik\/12950573-2-eng-GB\/Proba-2_X-Cam_image_of_Typhoon_Soulik_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"93\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe swirling eye of Typhoon Soulik as it approached Taiwan last Friday is caught by a tiny espresso cup-sized camera on one of ESA\u2019s smallest satellites, Proba-2.&nbsp;This X-Cam image of Typhoon Soulik was acquired on 12 July at 10:14 GMT.&nbsp;Less than a cubic metre in size, Proba-2 focuses on observing solar activity and space weather. But it also keeps a small eye on its homeworld.&nbsp;Among the 17 experimental technologies hosted on Proba-2 is the compact Exploration Camera, X-Cam. Housed on the underside of the satellite, the monochrome X-Cam observes in the visible and infrared with a 100\u00b0 field of view.<\/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\/07\/proba-2_x-cam_image_of_typhoon_soulik\/12950573-2-eng-GB\/Proba-2_X-Cam_image_of_Typhoon_Soulik_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"93\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe swirling eye of Typhoon Soulik as it approached Taiwan last Friday is caught by a tiny espresso cup-sized camera on one of ESA\u2019s smallest satellites, Proba-2.&nbsp;This X-Cam image of Typhoon Soulik was acquired on 12 July at 10:14 GMT.&nbsp;Less than a cubic metre in size, Proba-2 focuses on observing solar activity and space weather. But it also keeps a small eye on its homeworld.&nbsp;Among the 17 experimental technologies hosted on Proba-2 is the compact Exploration Camera, X-Cam. Housed on the underside of the satellite, the monochrome X-Cam observes in the visible and infrared with a 100\u00b0 field of view.<\/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-210807","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\/210807","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=210807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210807\/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=210807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}