{"id":241129,"date":"2016-05-20T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=37c63884771982a00e0750b6e620d263"},"modified":"2016-05-20T04:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:38:00","slug":"mars-in-opposition-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241129","title":{"rendered":"Mars in opposition 2016"},"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\/2016\/05\/mars_in_opposition_2016\/15994322-1-eng-GB\/Mars_in_opposition_2016_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows our neighbouring planet Mars, as it was observed shortly before opposition in 2016 by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome prominent features of the planet are clearly visible: the ancient and inactive shield volcano Syrtis Major; the bright and oval Hellas Planitia basin; the heavily eroded Arabia Terra in the centre of the image; the dark features of Sinus Sabaeous and Sinus Meridiani along the equator; and the small southern polar cap.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/hubble\/57834-close-up-of-the-red-planet\/\" title=\"Close up of the Red Planet\" >Close up of the Red Planet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image shows our neighbouring planet Mars, as it was observed shortly before opposition in 2016 by the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Some prominent features of the planet are clearly visible: the ancient and inactive shield volcano &#8230;<\/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-241129","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\/241129","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=241129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241130,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241129\/revisions\/241130"}],"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=241129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}