{"id":218718,"date":"2014-01-09T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"b2388e20d4479f9841397e34c87250ba"},"modified":"2014-01-09T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:14:00","slug":"venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218718","title":{"rendered":"Venus"},"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\/2014\/01\/venus\/13476654-1-eng-GB\/Venus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taken on 2014-01-07 01:04:59 UTC <br \/>Distance to Venus = about 50000 km\n<\/p>\n<p>Spacecraft is high above South pole.<br \/>South pole is at right of image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVenus is just over 12,000 km in diameter \u2013 only 5% smaller than the diameter of the Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe striations in the cloud show that the winds are blowing around the pole. The planet and its winds rotate from East to the West, note that this is \u201cbackwards\u201d compared to the rotation of the Earth and every other planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNote that the blotches on the image are camera artifacts: these are due to sensitivity variations in the camera, which are corrected for in a calibration procedure (that hasn\u2019t been done yet for these images, since they were only obtained today).<\/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\/2014\/01\/venus\/13476654-1-eng-GB\/Venus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taken on 2014-01-07 01:04:59 UTC <br \/>Distance to Venus = about 50000 km\n<\/p>\n<p>Spacecraft is high above South pole.<br \/>South pole is at right of image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVenus is just over 12,000 km in diameter \u2013 only 5% smaller than the diameter of the Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe striations in the cloud show that the winds are blowing around the pole. The planet and its winds rotate from East to the West, note that this is \u201cbackwards\u201d compared to the rotation of the Earth and every other planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNote that the blotches on the image are camera artifacts: these are due to sensitivity variations in the camera, which are corrected for in a calibration procedure (that hasn\u2019t been done yet for these images, since they were only obtained today).<\/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-218718","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\/218718","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=218718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218718\/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=218718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}