{"id":640864,"date":"2019-12-16T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640864"},"modified":"2019-12-16T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:52:00","slug":"exoplanet-complete-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640864","title":{"rendered":"Exoplanet complete orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Exoplanet_complete_orbit_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nChanges in starlight reflected\u00a0by the planet as it orbits its star provide insight into the physical\u00a0processes that drive the transport of heat\u00a0from the hot day side to the\u00a0cooler night side. This technique, called phase curve analysis, also reveals details of\u00a0the planet\u2019s atmosphere, including the\u00a0presence of clouds, and possibly\u00a0even hints of the cloud composition.<br \/>ESA&#8217;s Characterising\u00a0Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, will use the phase curve method to study\u00a0some of the brightest stars in the mission&#8217;s list of\u00a0targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Cheops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">More about Cheops<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2019\/12\/Exoplanet_complete_orbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Exoplanet complete orbit<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in starlight reflected\u00a0by the planet as it orbits its star provide insight into the physical\u00a0processes that drive the transport of heat\u00a0from the hot day side to the\u00a0cooler night side.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640865,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640864","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\/640864","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/640865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}