{"id":362510,"date":"2017-08-21T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0470775c116e5319ea616a02c5284476"},"modified":"2017-08-21T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T19:57:00","slug":"proba-2-partial-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=362510","title":{"rendered":"Proba-2 partial eclipse"},"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\/2017\/08\/proba-2_partial_eclipse\/17119881-1-eng-GB\/Proba-2_partial_eclipse_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs the US enjoyed a total solar eclipse on 21 August 2017, ESA\u2019s Sun-watching Proba-2 satellite captured partial eclipses from its viewpoint, 800 km above Earth. Proba-2 orbits Earth about 14.5 times per day, and thanks to the constant change in viewing angle, it can dip in and out of the Moon\u2019s shadow several times during a solar eclipse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis still image shows <a href=\"http:\/\/proba2.sidc.be\/eclipse-August-2017\">one of the first images available<\/a> from today&#8217;s eclipse, taken at 17:08 GMT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image was taken by the SWAP imager, and shows the solar disc in extreme-ultraviolet light to capture its turbulent surface and swirling corona corresponding to temperatures of about a million degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/08\/proba-2_partial_eclipse\/17119881-1-eng-GB\/Proba-2_partial_eclipse_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nAs the US enjoyed a total solar eclipse on 21 August 2017, ESA&rsquo;s Sun-watching Proba-2 satellite captured partial eclipses from its viewpoint, 800 km above Earth. Proba-2 orbits Earth about 14.5 times per day, and thanks to the constant change in viewing angle, it can dip in and out of the Moon&rsquo;s shadow several times during a solar eclipse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis still image shows <a href=\"http:\/\/proba2.sidc.be\/eclipse-August-2017\">one of the first images available<\/a> from today&#8217;s eclipse, taken at 17:08 GMT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image was taken by the SWAP imager, and shows the solar disc in extreme-ultraviolet light to capture its turbulent surface and swirling corona corresponding to temperatures of about a million degrees.<\/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-362510","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\/362510","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=362510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362511,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362510\/revisions\/362511"}],"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=362510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}