{"id":651658,"date":"2020-04-10T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=651658"},"modified":"2020-04-10T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:30:00","slug":"bepicolombo-takes-last-snaps-of-earth-en-route-to-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=651658","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BepiColombo_s_close-up_of_Earth_during_flyby_card_full-2.jpg\" alt=\"BepiColombo&#x2019;s close-up of Earth during flyby\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ESA\/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on 10 April, as the spacecraft came less than 12\u00a0700 km from Earth\u2019s surface at 06:25 CEST, steering its trajectory towards the final destination, Mercury. Images gathered just before closest approach portray our planet shining through darkness, during one of humankind\u2019s most challenging times in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/BepiColombo\/BepiColombo_takes_last_snaps_of_Earth_en_route_to_Mercury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to Mercury<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ESA\/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on 10 April, as the spacecraft came less than 12\u00a0700 km from Earth\u2019s surface at 06:25 CEST, steering its trajectory towards the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651659,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651658","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=651658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/651659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}