{"id":502204,"date":"2018-07-26T17:03:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=793ead6ecd7768384b8505d9a3164a6a"},"modified":"2018-07-26T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T21:03:02","slug":"celestial-lineup-makes-for-a-very-bright-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=502204","title":{"rendered":"Celestial Lineup Makes For A Very Bright Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/07\/26\/gr-mars-1000_wide-8ae95964ca762741f5706ed0414dbd4dbbc6cf00.png?s=600' alt='When Mars is \"in opposition,\" it, Earth and the sun are all in alignment. (Note: This is a diagram meant to illustrate the concept of opposition. It is not drawn to scale.)'\/><\/p>\n<p>Mars, Earth and the sun have lined up, a celestial orientation known as opposition. This is particular opposition occurs at a time when the orbit of Mars takes it closest to the sun.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Alyson Hurt\/NPR)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=632620769' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars, Earth and the sun have lined up, a celestial orientation known as opposition. This is particular opposition occurs at a time when the orbit of Mars takes it closest to the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502204","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\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502205,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502204\/revisions\/502205"}],"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=502204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}