{"id":128504,"date":"2021-10-03T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mercury-mission-flies"},"modified":"2021-10-03T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T16:22:38","slug":"mercury-mission-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/mercury-mission-flies","title":{"rendered":"Mercury mission flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mercury-mission-flies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BepiColombo will fly by the planet\u2019s night side, so images during the closest approach wouldn\u2019t be able to show much detail.<\/p>\n<p>The mission team anticipates the images will show large impact craters that are scattered across Mercury\u2019s surface, much like our moon. The researchers can use the images to map Mercury\u2019s surface and learn more about the planet\u2019s composition.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the instruments on both orbiters will be turned on during the flyby so they can get a first whiff of Mercury\u2019s magnetic field, plasma and particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BepiColombo will fly by the planet\u2019s night side, so images during the closest approach wouldn\u2019t be able to show much detail. The mission team anticipates the images will show large impact craters that are scattered across Mercury\u2019s surface, much like our moon. The researchers can use the images to map Mercury\u2019s surface and learn more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128504","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}