{"id":129799,"date":"2021-11-01T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/hear-and-feel-bepicolombo-spacecrafts-first-tastes-of-mercury-science"},"modified":"2021-11-01T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:23:34","slug":"hear-and-feel-bepicolombo-spacecrafts-first-tastes-of-mercury-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/hear-and-feel-bepicolombo-spacecrafts-first-tastes-of-mercury-science","title":{"rendered":"Hear and Feel BepiColombo Spacecraft\u2019s First Tastes of Mercury Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hear-and-feel-bepicolombo-spacecrafts-first-tastes-of-mercury-science.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The magnetic and particle environment around Mercury was sampled by BepiColombo for the first time during the mission\u2019s close flyby of the planet at 199 km on 1\u20132 October 2,021 while the huge gravitational pull of the planet was felt by its accelerometers.<\/p>\n<p>The magnetic and accelerometer data have been converted into sound files and presented here for the first time. They capture the \u2018sound\u2019 of the solar wind as it bombards a planet close to the Sun, the flexing of the spacecraft as it responded to the change in temperature as it flew from the night to dayside of the planet, and even the sound of a science instrument rotating to its \u2018park\u2019 position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magnetic and particle environment around Mercury was sampled by BepiColombo for the first time during the mission\u2019s close flyby of the planet at 199 km on 1\u20132 October 2,021 while the huge gravitational pull of the planet was felt by its accelerometers. The magnetic and accelerometer data have been converted into sound files and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129799","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=129799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}