{"id":115039,"date":"2020-10-25T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-bepicolombo-probe-just-took-a-ridiculously-close-video-of-venus-as-it-flew-by"},"modified":"2020-10-25T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:23:46","slug":"the-bepicolombo-probe-just-took-a-ridiculously-close-video-of-venus-as-it-flew-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-bepicolombo-probe-just-took-a-ridiculously-close-video-of-venus-as-it-flew-by","title":{"rendered":"The BepiColombo Probe Just Took a Ridiculously Close Video of Venus as It Flew By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-bepicolombo-probe-just-took-a-ridiculously-close-video-of-venus-as-it-flew-by.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/europe-and-japan-are-about-to-launch-an-ambitious-mission-to-mercury\">after it left Earth<\/a>, Mercury probe BepiColombo has completed the first of its first flybys of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/venus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Venus\">Venus<\/a>. The manoeuvre is designed to give the spacecraft a boost on its journey \u2014 but it\u2019s also too good an opportunity to pass up for a little science.<\/p>\n<p>As it swung around the planet on a curved trajectory, BepiColombo gave its instruments a workout, testing their functionality for a taste of what the spacecraft will do in Mercury orbit and collecting some data on Venus \u2013 recently in the news for the discovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/have-scientists-detected-evidence-of-microbial-life-on-venus-not-so-fast\">phosphine gas in its atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) probe took a whole lot of images, which the ESA compiled into a video of the flyby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after it left Earth, Mercury probe BepiColombo has completed the first of its first flybys of Venus. The manoeuvre is designed to give the spacecraft a boost on its journey \u2014 but it\u2019s also too good an opportunity to pass up for a little science. As it swung around the planet on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}