{"id":242992,"date":"2016-09-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3b24d976d6abd3a0273d955ed3ee3f1a"},"modified":"2016-09-26T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:30:00","slug":"visualising-rosettas-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242992","title":{"rendered":"Visualising Rosetta&#8217;s descent"},"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\/2016\/09\/visualising_rosetta_s_descent\/16151605-2-eng-GB\/Visualising_Rosetta_s_descent_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAnimation visualising Rosetta&#8217;s descent to Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko on 30 September 2016. The sequence is speeded up to show the relative motion of Rosetta and the rotating comet below. Rosetta will target a smooth region close to several large pits measuring more than 100 m across and 60 m deep, on the small lobe of the comet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe impact time is predicted as&nbsp;11:20 GMT +\/- 20 minutes on 30 September.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor more information about Rosetta&#8217;s descent see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/Rosetta_s_descent_towards_region_of_active_pits\">Rosetta&#8217;s descent towards region of active pits<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the latest updates, see <a href=\"http:\/\/rosetta.esa.int\/\" >rosetta.esa.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/09\/visualising_rosetta_s_descent\/16151605-2-eng-GB\/Visualising_Rosetta_s_descent_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nAnimation visualising Rosetta&#8217;s descent to Comet 67P\/Churyumov&ndash;Gerasimenko on 30 September 2016. The sequence is speeded up to show the relative motion of Rosetta and the rotating comet below. Rosetta will target a smooth region close to several large pits measuring more than 100 m across and 60 m deep, on the small lobe of the comet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe impact time is predicted as&nbsp;11:20 GMT +\/- 20 minutes on 30 September.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor more information about Rosetta&#8217;s descent see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/Rosetta_s_descent_towards_region_of_active_pits\">Rosetta&#8217;s descent towards region of active pits<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the latest updates, see <a href=\"http:\/\/rosetta.esa.int\/\" target=\"_blank\">rosetta.esa.int<\/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-242992","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\/242992","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=242992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242993,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242992\/revisions\/242993"}],"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=242992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}