{"id":220264,"date":"2012-11-13T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"8ec7e8ed77a840554c5b31e32f0338af"},"modified":"2012-11-13T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"proba-2-sees-three-partial-solar-eclipses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220264","title":{"rendered":"Proba-2 sees three partial solar eclipses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2012\/11\/proba-2_sees_three_partial_solar_eclipses\/12111203-1-eng-GB\/Proba-2_sees_three_partial_solar_eclipses_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe total solar eclipse of 13-14 November 2012 was only visible to ground-based observers situated in northern Australia, while ESA&#8217;s Sun-watching satellite Proba-2 enjoyed three partial eclipses from its viewpoint in space. The constant change in viewing angle of Proba-2 as it orbits the Earth meant that the satellite passed through the Moon\u2019s shadow a total of three times during the eclipse event. The video was produced from images taken by Proba-2\u2019s SWAP imager, which snaps the Sun in ultraviolet light to reveal stormy active regions on the solar disc.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe apparent noise in the movie results from high energy particles hitting Proba-2&#8217;s electronics as the spacecraft passes through the South Atlantic Anomaly. The dimming in the movie is an effect as part of the satellite&#8217;s orbit passes through the shadow of the Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaSC\/SEMFYC72Q8H_index_0.html\" >http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaSC\/SEMFYC72Q8H_index_0.html<\/a><\/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\/videos\/2012\/11\/proba-2_sees_three_partial_solar_eclipses\/12111203-1-eng-GB\/Proba-2_sees_three_partial_solar_eclipses_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe total solar eclipse of 13-14 November 2012 was only visible to ground-based observers situated in northern Australia, while ESA&#8217;s Sun-watching satellite Proba-2 enjoyed three partial eclipses from its viewpoint in space. The constant change in viewing angle of Proba-2 as it orbits the Earth meant that the satellite passed through the Moon\u2019s shadow a total of three times during the eclipse event. The video was produced from images taken by Proba-2\u2019s SWAP imager, which snaps the Sun in ultraviolet light to reveal stormy active regions on the solar disc.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe apparent noise in the movie results from high energy particles hitting Proba-2&#8217;s electronics as the spacecraft passes through the South Atlantic Anomaly. The dimming in the movie is an effect as part of the satellite&#8217;s orbit passes through the shadow of the Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaSC\/SEMFYC72Q8H_index_0.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaSC\/SEMFYC72Q8H_index_0.html<\/a><\/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-220264","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\/220264","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=220264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220264\/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=220264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}