{"id":784418,"date":"2024-06-20T10:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=784418"},"modified":"2024-06-20T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:22:52","slug":"esa-summer-solstice-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=784418","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Summer solstice 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere today 20 June, marking the longest day of the year. The summer solstice, which is when the Sun reaches the\u00a0most northerly\u00a0point in the sky, is set to occur\u00a0tonight\u00a0at 21:50 BST\/22:50 CEST.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer solstice, the Northern Hemisphere will experience the longest period of sunlight in a day or the longest day of the year.\u00a0This is because of Earth\u2019s position in orbit around the Sun and the way the North Pole is tilted\u00a0towards\u00a0the Sun during the solstice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sun\u2019s rays hit the Northern Hemisphere at their most direct angle, resulting in the most extended period of daylight.\u00a0Despite the long hours of daylight, it\u00a0may\u00a0not necessarily be the hottest day of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This animation shows\u00a0one image per day captured by the\u00a0Meteosat Second Generation\u00a0from 20 June 2023 until 19 June 2024 captured at approximately 16:30 BST\/17:30 CEST.<\/p>\n<p>Access the related broadcast quality video material.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Summer solstice 2024\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rODI4Igpfvw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2024\/06\/Summer_solstice_2024?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere today 20 June, marking the longest day of the year. The summer solstice, which is when the Sun reaches the\u00a0most northerly\u00a0point in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":784419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784418","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\/784418","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=784418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/784419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}