{"id":417398,"date":"2017-12-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0a03249b9b61ae135e1fb851682c5884"},"modified":"2017-12-14T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T10:00:00","slug":"north-to-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=417398","title":{"rendered":"North to south"},"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\/12\/north_to_south\/17300477-1-eng-GB\/North_to_south_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis stunning image swath was taken by ESA\u2019s Mars Express during camera calibration as the spacecraft flew over the north pole (bottom) towards the equator (top).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images were taken by the high-resolution stereo camera\u2019s nine channels (one nadir, four colour and four stereo), which were panned over the surface to record a large area at uniform illumination conditions. At the same time the camera was shifted to the horizon, instead of just pointing to the surface as in routine imaging.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images were taken on 19 June 2017 during Mars Express orbit 17 050. The ground resolution in the centre of the image is about 1 km\/pixel and the images are centred at 249\u00baE \/ 65\u00b0N.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\/Mars_upside_down\">More information<\/a><\/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\/12\/north_to_south\/17300477-1-eng-GB\/North_to_south_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThis stunning image swath was taken by ESA&rsquo;s Mars Express during camera calibration as the spacecraft flew over the north pole (bottom) towards the equator (top).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images were taken by the high-resolution stereo camera&rsquo;s nine channels (one nadir, four colour and four stereo), which were panned over the surface to record a large area at uniform illumination conditions. At the same time the camera was shifted to the horizon, instead of just pointing to the surface as in routine imaging.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe images were taken on 19 June 2017 during Mars Express orbit 17 050. The ground resolution in the centre of the image is about 1 km\/pixel and the images are centred at 249&ordm;E \/ 65&deg;N.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\/Mars_upside_down\">More information<\/a><\/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-417398","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\/417398","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=417398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417399,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417398\/revisions\/417399"}],"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=417398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}