{"id":708735,"date":"2021-11-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708735"},"modified":"2021-11-18T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:00:00","slug":"solar-orbiter-returns-to-earth-before-starting-its-main-science-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708735","title":{"rendered":"Solar Orbiter returns to Earth before starting its main science mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Solar_Orbiter_s_Earth_flyby_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Solar Orbiter is returning to Earth for a flyby before starting its main science mission to explore the Sun and its connection to \u2018space weather\u2019. During the flyby Solar Orbiter must pass through the clouds of space debris that surround our planet, making this manoeuvre the riskiest flyby yet for a science mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Solar_Orbiter\/Solar_Orbiter_returns_to_Earth_before_starting_its_main_science_mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Solar Orbiter returns to Earth before starting its main science mission<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar Orbiter is returning to Earth for a flyby before starting its main science mission to explore the Sun and its connection to \u2018space weather\u2019. During the flyby Solar Orbiter&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708736,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708735","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\/708735","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=708735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/708736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}