{"id":128434,"date":"2021-10-02T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/european-japanese-space-mission-gets-1st-glimpse-of-mercury"},"modified":"2021-10-02T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:23:22","slug":"european-japanese-space-mission-gets-1st-glimpse-of-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/european-japanese-space-mission-gets-1st-glimpse-of-mercury","title":{"rendered":"European-Japanese space mission gets 1st glimpse of Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/european-japanese-space-mission-gets-1st-glimpse-of-mercury.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system\u2019s innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The BepiColombo mission made the first of six flybys of Mercury at 11:34 p.m. GMT (7:34 p.m. EST) Friday, using the planet\u2019s gravity to slow the spacecraft down.<\/p>\n<p>After swooping past Mercury at altitudes of under 200 kilometers (125 miles), the spacecraft took a low resolution black-and-white photo with one of its monitoring cameras before zipping off again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system\u2019s innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025. The BepiColombo mission made the first of six flybys of Mercury at 11:34 p.m. GMT (7:34 p.m. EST) Friday, using the [\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-128434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128434","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=128434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}