{"id":220648,"date":"2014-07-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/solar-dynamics-observatory-captures-images-of-lunar-transit"},"modified":"2014-07-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T16:00:00","slug":"solar-dynamics-observatory-captures-images-of-lunar-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220648","title":{"rendered":"Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Images of Lunar Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 26, 2014, from 10:57 a.m. to 11:42 a.m. EDT, the moon crossed between NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the sun, a phenomenon called a lunar transit. A lunar transit happens approximately twice a year, causing a partial solar eclipse that can only be seen from SDO&#8217;s point of view. Images of the eclipse show a crisp lunar horizon, because the moon has no atmosphere that would distort light. This image shows the blended result of two SDO wavelengths &#8211; one in 304 wavelength and another in 171 wavelength.<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/SDO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 26, 2014, from 10:57 a.m. to 11:42 a.m. EDT, the moon crossed between NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the sun, a phenomenon called a lunar transit. A lunar transit happens approximately twice a year, causing a partial solar eclipse that can only be seen from SDO&#8217;s point of view. Images of the eclipse show a crisp lunar horizon, because the moon has no atmosphere that would distort light. This image shows the blended result of two SDO wavelengths &#8211; one in 304 wavelength and another in 171 wavelength.<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA\/SDO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220648","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}