{"id":289142,"date":"2017-03-20T07:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=80884e42b36808bd495f3053663b986e"},"modified":"2017-03-20T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:20:07","slug":"nasa-satellites-ready-when-stars-and-planets-align","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=289142","title":{"rendered":"NASA satellites ready when stars and planets align"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movements of the stars and the planets have almost no impact on life on Earth, but a few times per year, the alignment of celestial bodies has a visible effect. One of these geometric events\u2014the spring equinox\u2014is just around the corner, and another major alignment\u2014a total solar eclipse\u2014will be visible across America on Aug. 21, with a fleet of NASA satellites viewing it from space and providing images of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movements of the stars and the planets have almost no impact on life on Earth, but a few times per year, the alignment of celestial bodies has a visible effect. One of these geometric events&mdash;the spring equinox&mdash;is just around the corner, and another major alignment&mdash;a total solar eclipse&mdash;will be visible across America on Aug. 21, with a fleet of NASA satellites viewing it from space and providing images of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289142","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289143,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289142\/revisions\/289143"}],"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=289142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}