{"id":160624,"date":"2023-03-19T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-its-15th-close-flyby-of-the-sun-this-st-patricks-day"},"modified":"2023-03-19T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:24:55","slug":"nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-its-15th-close-flyby-of-the-sun-this-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-its-15th-close-flyby-of-the-sun-this-st-patricks-day","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe makes its 15th close flyby of the sun this St. Patrick\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-its-15th-close-flyby-of-the-sun-this-st-patricks-day3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s sun-touching Parker Solar Probe spacecraft will celebrate St. Patrick\u2019s Day (March 17) by making another close approach to our star. While people all over Earth enjoy a cold beer, the spacecraft will brave blisteringly hot temperatures as high as 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,400 degrees Celsius) as it makes its 15th close approach to the sun, or perihelion.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe website, (opens in new tab) the exact time of the close approach will be 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) when the spacecraft comes to within around 5.3 million miles (8.5 million km) of the sun\u2019s surface, the photosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s sun-touching Parker Solar Probe spacecraft will celebrate St. Patrick\u2019s Day (March 17) by making another close approach to our star. While people all over Earth enjoy a cold beer, the spacecraft will brave blisteringly hot temperatures as high as 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,400 degrees Celsius) as it makes its 15th close approach to 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-160624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160624","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=160624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}