{"id":126241,"date":"2021-08-15T05:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/solar-orbiter-spacecraft-sends-postcard-from-venus-in-flyby-video"},"modified":"2021-08-15T05:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T12:22:41","slug":"solar-orbiter-spacecraft-sends-postcard-from-venus-in-flyby-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/solar-orbiter-spacecraft-sends-postcard-from-venus-in-flyby-video","title":{"rendered":"Solar Orbiter spacecraft sends postcard from Venus in flyby video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-orbiter-spacecraft-sends-postcard-from-venus-in-flyby-video.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar Orbiter zipped by Venus earlier this week, just one day ahead of the Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The sun-exploring spacecraft<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/35865-solar-orbiter-facts.html\"> Solar Orbiter<\/a> has captured this video of a glowing crescent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/44-venus-second-planet-from-the-sun-brightest-planet-in-solar-system.html\">Venus<\/a> as it flew past the planet during an orbit adjustment maneuver on Monday (Aug 9).<\/p>\n<p>The video was taken by Solar Orbiter\u2019s Heliospheric Imager, or SoloHI, as the joint European Space Agency (ESA)\/NASA satellite zipped by the hot and cloudy planet at a distance of 4,967 miles (7,995 kilometers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar Orbiter zipped by Venus earlier this week, just one day ahead of the Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo. The sun-exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter has captured this video of a glowing crescent of Venus as it flew past the planet during an orbit adjustment maneuver on Monday (Aug 9). The video was taken by Solar Orbiter\u2019s Heliospheric [\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-126241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126241","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=126241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}