{"id":435360,"date":"2018-02-02T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fcebf595fb4b16053d85ee3c87719502"},"modified":"2018-02-02T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:45:19","slug":"nasas-newly-rediscovered-image-mission-provided-key-aurora-research-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=435360","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s newly rediscovered IMAGE mission provided key aurora research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 20, 2018, amateur astronomer Scott Tilley detected an unexpected signal coming from what he later postulated was NASA&#8217;s long-lost IMAGE satellite, which had not been in contact since 2005. On Jan. 30, NASA\u2014along with help from a community of IMAGE scientists and engineers\u2014confirmed that the signal was indeed from the IMAGE spacecraft. Whatever the next steps for IMAGE may be, the mission&#8217;s nearly six years in operation provided robust research about the space around Earth that continue to guide science to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 20, 2018, amateur astronomer Scott Tilley detected an unexpected signal coming from what he later postulated was NASA&#8217;s long-lost IMAGE satellite, which had not been in contact since 2005. On Jan. 30, NASA&mdash;along with help from a community of IMAGE scientists and engineers&mdash;confirmed that the signal was indeed from the IMAGE spacecraft. Whatever the next steps for IMAGE may be, the mission&#8217;s nearly six years in operation provided robust research about the space around Earth that continue to guide science to this day.<\/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-435360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435360","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=435360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435361,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435360\/revisions\/435361"}],"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=435360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}