{"id":536900,"date":"2018-10-19T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=56d3a9698b7eb82851282200dc8c8378"},"modified":"2018-10-19T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:57:00","slug":"a-slow-trip-to-a-hot-planet-spacecraft-poised-for-mission-to-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=536900","title":{"rendered":"A Slow Trip To A Hot Planet: Spacecraft Poised For Mission To Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/10\/19\/mercury_wide-c51f3ae29d4c273ecd35aa183853ef005c017c51.jpg?s=600' alt='This October 2008 photo shows Mercury during the Messenger spacecraft's second flyby of the planet.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s BepiColombo will take seven years to reach the innermost planet in our solar system, where temperatures at the surface can reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington via AP)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=654341131' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s BepiColombo will take seven years to reach the innermost planet in our solar system, where temperatures at the surface can reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536900","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\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537070,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536900\/revisions\/537070"}],"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=536900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}