{"id":220477,"date":"2014-07-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"c244cfe84aab53a4d63c4c689bd0d403"},"modified":"2014-07-06T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T22:00:00","slug":"venus-express-plunging-into-the-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220477","title":{"rendered":"Venus Express plunging into the atmosphere"},"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\/2014\/07\/venus_express_plunging_into_the_atmosphere\/14609569-2-eng-GB\/Venus_Express_plunging_into_the_atmosphere_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\nAfter eight years in orbit, ESA\u2019s Venus Express has completed routine science observations and is preparing for a daring plunge into the planet\u2019s hostile atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVenus Express was launched&nbsp;on 9 November 2005, and arrived at Venus on 11 April 2006.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt has been orbiting Venus in an elliptical 24-hour loop that takes it from a distant 66 000 km over the south pole \u2013 affording incredible global views \u2013 to an altitude of around 250 km above the surface at the north pole, close to the top of the planet\u2019s atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith a suite of seven instruments, the spacecraft has provided a comprehensive study of the ionosphere, atmosphere and surface of Venus.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>It includes interviews in English with&nbsp;H\u00e5kan Svedhem, ESA mission scientist and&nbsp;Patrick Martin, ESA Venus Express mission manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/2014\/07\/venus_express_plunging_into_the_atmosphere\/14609569-2-eng-GB\/Venus_Express_plunging_into_the_atmosphere_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\nAfter eight years in orbit, ESA\u2019s Venus Express has completed routine science observations and is preparing for a daring plunge into the planet\u2019s hostile atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVenus Express was launched&nbsp;on 9 November 2005, and arrived at Venus on 11 April 2006.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt has been orbiting Venus in an elliptical 24-hour loop that takes it from a distant 66 000 km over the south pole \u2013 affording incredible global views \u2013 to an altitude of around 250 km above the surface at the north pole, close to the top of the planet\u2019s atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith a suite of seven instruments, the spacecraft has provided a comprehensive study of the ionosphere, atmosphere and surface of Venus.\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>It includes interviews in English with&nbsp;H\u00e5kan Svedhem, ESA mission scientist and&nbsp;Patrick Martin, ESA Venus Express mission manager<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-220477","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\/220477","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=220477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220477\/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=220477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}