{"id":132423,"date":"2021-12-14T20:25:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasa-craft-touches-sun-for-1st-time-dives-into-atmosphere"},"modified":"2021-12-14T20:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T04:25:54","slug":"nasa-craft-touches-sun-for-1st-time-dives-into-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasa-craft-touches-sun-for-1st-time-dives-into-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"NASA craft \u2018touches\u2019 sun for 1st time, dives into atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-craft-touches-sun-for-1st-time-dives-into-atmosphere2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A NASA spacecraft has officially \u201ctouched\u201d the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists announced the news Tuesday during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">The Parker Solar Probe<\/a> actually flew through the corona in April during the spacecraft\u2019s eighth close approach to the sun. Scientists said it took a few months to get the data back and then several more months to confirm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A NASA spacecraft has officially \u201ctouched\u201d the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona. Scientists announced the news Tuesday during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The Parker Solar Probe actually flew through the corona in April during the spacecraft\u2019s eighth close approach to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132423","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}