{"id":392045,"date":"2017-10-23T07:07:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1144b484e4d389813016a43702cd3de1"},"modified":"2017-10-23T07:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T11:07:13","slug":"image-nasas-sdo-spots-a-lunar-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=392045","title":{"rendered":"Image: NASA&#8217;s SDO spots a lunar transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 19, 2017, the Moon photobombed NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, when it crossed the spacecraft&#8217;s view of the Sun, treating us to these shadowy images. The lunar transit lasted about 45 minutes, between 3:41 and 4:25 p.m. EDT, with the Moon covering about 26 percent of the Sun at the peak of its journey. The Moon&#8217;s shadow obstructs SDO&#8217;s otherwise constant view of the Sun, and the shadow&#8217;s edge is sharp and distinct, since the Moon has no atmosphere which would distort sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 19, 2017, the Moon photobombed NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, when it crossed the spacecraft&#8217;s view of the Sun, treating us to these shadowy images. The lunar transit lasted about 45 minutes, between 3:41 and 4:25 p.m. EDT, with the&#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-392045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392045","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=392045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392046,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392045\/revisions\/392046"}],"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=392045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}