{"id":791693,"date":"2024-12-03T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791693"},"modified":"2024-12-03T11:33:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:33:02","slug":"creating-artificial-eclipses-to-study-the-sun-proba-3-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791693","title":{"rendered":"Creating artificial eclipses to study the Sun | Proba-3 explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>Proba-3&nbsp;is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3\u2019s Coronagraph spacecraft to observe the Sun\u2019s faint surrounding atmosphere, its disk-bearing Occulter spacecraft must block out the fiery solar disk. This means Proba-3\u2019s Occulter ends up facing the Sun continuously, making it a valuable platform for science in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>Proba-3 is scheduled for launch on a PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Wednesday, 4 December, at 11:38 CET (10:38 GMT, 16:08 local time).<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2024\/12\/Creating_artificial_eclipses_to_study_the_Sun_Proba-3_explained?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proba-3&nbsp;is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3\u2019s Coronagraph spacecraft to observe the Sun\u2019s faint surrounding atmosphere, its disk-bearing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791693","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\/791693","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=791693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}