{"id":227979,"date":"2015-03-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/archive\/press\/2015\/march\/nasa-spacecraft-in-earth-s-orbit-preparing-to-study-magnetic-reconnection"},"modified":"2015-03-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T16:00:00","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-in-earths-orbit-preparing-to-study-magnetic-reconnection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=227979","title":{"rendered":"NASA Spacecraft in Earth\u2019s Orbit, Preparing to Study Magnetic Reconnection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a successful launch at 10:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, NASA\u2019s four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft are positioned in Earth\u2019s orbit to begin the first space mission dedicated to the study of a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. This process is thought to be the catalyst for some of the most powerful explosions in our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a successful launch at 10:44 p.m. EDT Thursday, NASA\u2019s four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft are positioned in Earth\u2019s orbit to begin the first space mission dedicated to the study of a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. This process is thought to be the catalyst for some of the most powerful explosions in our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227979","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227979\/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=227979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}