{"id":801418,"date":"2026-03-30T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801418"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:16:28","slug":"what-is-smile-about-to-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801418","title":{"rendered":"What is Smile about to discover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>What really happens when the Sun\u2019s charged particles slam into Earth\u2019s magnetic shield?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smile is about to reveal it for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>This groundbreaking mission will observe Earth\u2019s magnetosphere in X-rays while capturing the northern lights in ultraviolet, offering an entirely new way to see how our planet defends itself from solar storms.<\/p>\n<p>A joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Smile\u00a0will launch aboard a Vega-C rocket on 9 April.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Smile.<\/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=\"We\u2019re about to see Earth\u2019s magnetic shield like never before\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XS3INI9IsME?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\/2026\/03\/What_is_Smile_about_to_discover?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What really happens when the Sun\u2019s charged particles slam into Earth\u2019s magnetic shield?\u00a0 Smile is about to reveal it for the first time. This groundbreaking mission will observe Earth\u2019s magnetosphere&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801418","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\/801418","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=801418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}