{"id":232320,"date":"2015-08-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8c4cd7b3cd5a8132a221d4d35de38045"},"modified":"2015-08-13T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T14:30:00","slug":"approaching-perihelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=232320","title":{"rendered":"Approaching perihelion"},"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\/2015\/08\/approaching_perihelion\/15556058-1-eng-GB\/Approaching_perihelion_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis series of images of Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta\u2019s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 12 August 2015, just a few&nbsp;hours before the comet reached the closest point to the Sun along its 6.5-year orbit, or perihelion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image at left was taken at 14:07 GMT, the middle image at 17:35 GMT, and the final image at 23:31 GMT.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images were taken from a distance of about 330 km from the comet. The comet\u2019s activity, at its peak intensity around perihelion and in the weeks that follow, is clearly visible in these spectacular images. In particular, a&nbsp;significant outburst can be seen in the image captured at 17:35 GMT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull story:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/Rosetta_s_big_day_in_the_Sun\">Rosetta\u2019s big day in the Sun<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIndividual images: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2015\/08\/Approaching_perihelion_A\">left image<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2015\/08\/Approaching_perihelion_B\">middle image<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2015\/08\/Approaching_perihelion_C\">right image<\/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\/images\/2015\/08\/approaching_perihelion\/15556058-1-eng-GB\/Approaching_perihelion_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis series of images of Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta\u2019s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 12 August 2015, just a few&nbsp;hours before the comet reached the closest point to the Sun along its 6.5-year orbit, or perihelion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image at left was taken at 14:07 GMT, the middle image at 17:35 GMT, and the final image at 23:31 GMT.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images were taken from a distance of about 330 km from the comet. The comet\u2019s activity, at its peak intensity around perihelion and in the weeks that follow, is clearly visible in these spectacular images. In particular, a&nbsp;significant outburst can be seen in the image captured at 17:35 GMT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFull story:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/Rosetta_s_big_day_in_the_Sun\">Rosetta\u2019s big day in the Sun<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIndividual images: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2015\/08\/Approaching_perihelion_A\">left image<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2015\/08\/Approaching_perihelion_B\">middle image<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2015\/08\/Approaching_perihelion_C\">right image<\/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-232320","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\/232320","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=232320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232361,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232320\/revisions\/232361"}],"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=232320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}