{"id":388407,"date":"2017-10-13T15:25:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5142ff1981da2c2847b98e98b10f6416"},"modified":"2017-10-13T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:25:51","slug":"how-scientists-used-nasa-data-to-predict-the-corona-of-the-aug-21-total-solar-eclipse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=388407","title":{"rendered":"How scientists used NASA data to predict the corona of the Aug. 21 Total Solar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the total solar eclipse swept across the United States on Aug. 21, 2017, NASA satellites captured a diverse set of images from space. But days before the eclipse, some NASA satellites also enabled scientists to predict what the corona\u2014the Sun&#8217;s outer atmosphere\u2014would look like during the eclipse, from the ground. In addition to offering a case study to test our predictive abilities, the predictions also enabled some eclipse scientists to choose their study targets in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the total solar eclipse swept across the United States on Aug. 21, 2017, NASA satellites captured a diverse set of images from space. But days before the eclipse, some NASA satellites also enabled scientists to predict what the corona&mdash;the Sun&#8217;s outer atmosphere&mdash;would look like during the eclipse, from the ground. In addition to offering a case study to test our predictive abilities, the predictions also enabled some eclipse scientists to choose their study targets in advance.<\/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-388407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388407","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=388407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388408,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388407\/revisions\/388408"}],"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=388407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}