{"id":418028,"date":"2017-12-15T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f80f9cc153a30d9b91825598f0254e84"},"modified":"2017-12-15T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:03:00","slug":"zero-g-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=418028","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zero-G&#8217; science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/12\/zero-g_science\/17303756-2-eng-GB\/Zero-G_science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\nESA is taking advantage of Novespace\u2019s latest &#8216;Zero-G&#8217; aircraft to perform a number of experiments in microgravity. Twelve experiments &#8211; which include six by professional scientists and six by students as part of ESA\u2019s Fly Your Thesis programme &#8211; took to the skies for three series of 31 parabolas off the coast of France. Conditions of microgravity, or weightlessness, are unique for research ranging from fundamental physics, testing Einstein\u2019s weak equivalence principle, to psychology, neuroscience and the deployment of a balloon that may one day make measurements while falling through Mars\u2019 atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/12\/zero-g_science\/17303756-2-eng-GB\/Zero-G_science_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA is taking advantage of Novespace&rsquo;s latest &#8216;Zero-G&#8217; aircraft to perform a number of experiments in microgravity. Twelve experiments &#8211; which include six by professional scientists and six by students as part of ESA&rsquo;s Fly Your Thesis programme &#8211; took to the skies for three series of 31 parabolas off the coast of France. Conditions of microgravity, or weightlessness, are unique for research ranging from fundamental physics, testing Einstein&rsquo;s weak equivalence principle, to psychology, neuroscience and the deployment of a balloon that may one day make measurements while falling through Mars&rsquo; atmosphere.<\/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-418028","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\/418028","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=418028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418029,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418028\/revisions\/418029"}],"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=418028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}