{"id":126109,"date":"2021-08-11T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/mercury-bound-spacecraft-snaps-selfie-with-venus-in-close-flyby-photo"},"modified":"2021-08-11T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:22:58","slug":"mercury-bound-spacecraft-snaps-selfie-with-venus-in-close-flyby-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/mercury-bound-spacecraft-snaps-selfie-with-venus-in-close-flyby-photo","title":{"rendered":"Mercury-bound spacecraft snaps selfie with Venus in close flyby (photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mercury-bound-spacecraft-snaps-selfie-with-venus-in-close-flyby-photo3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Venus flyby provided an opportunity to test BepiColombo\u2019s instruments ahead of its first encounter with destination planet Mercury.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mercury-bound spacecraft BepiColombo has zoomed past Venus at a distance of only 340 miles, taking a bunch of selfies and a lot of scientific measurements that might shed new light on the mysteries of the planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Venus flyby provided an opportunity to test BepiColombo\u2019s instruments ahead of its first encounter with destination planet Mercury. Mercury-bound spacecraft BepiColombo has zoomed past Venus at a distance of only 340 miles, taking a bunch of selfies and a lot of scientific measurements that might shed new light on the mysteries of the planet\u2019s [\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-126109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126109","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=126109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}