{"id":321216,"date":"2017-05-26T11:33:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=dc43972efb74eeab70c1b99c781214a4"},"modified":"2017-05-26T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:33:23","slug":"sdo-sees-partial-eclipse-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=321216","title":{"rendered":"SDO sees partial eclipse in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, 2017, NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The lunar transit lasted almost an hour, between 2:24 and 3:17 p.m. EDT, with the moon covering about 89 percent of the sun at the peak of its journey across the sun&#8217;s face. The moon&#8217;s crisp horizon can be seen from this view because the moon has no atmosphere to distort the sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, 2017, NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The lunar transit lasted almost an hour, between 2:24 and 3:17 p.m. EDT, with the moon covering about &#8230;<\/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-321216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321216","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=321216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321217,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321216\/revisions\/321217"}],"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=321216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}