{"id":179674,"date":"2024-01-02T16:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T22:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/nasa-probe-expected-to-zoom-past-sun-this-year"},"modified":"2024-01-02T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T22:22:23","slug":"nasa-probe-expected-to-zoom-past-sun-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/nasa-probe-expected-to-zoom-past-sun-this-year","title":{"rendered":"NASA probe expected to zoom past sun this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-probe-expected-to-zoom-past-sun-this-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NewsNation<\/a>) \u2014A <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/parker-solar-probe\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/parker-solar-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA probe<\/a> will fly within nearly 4 million miles of the sun\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>The probe is expected to pass the sun 3.8 million miles from its surface on Christmas Eve this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-67837161\">BBC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be a monumental achievement for all humanity,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-67837161\">Parker project scientist Dr Nour Raouafi told BBC News<\/a>. \u201cThis is equivalent to the Moon landing of 1969.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NewsNation) \u2014A NASA probe will fly within nearly 4 million miles of the sun\u2019s surface. The probe is expected to pass the sun 3.8 million miles from its surface on Christmas Eve this year, BBC News reported. \u201cThis will be a monumental achievement for all humanity,\u201d Parker project scientist Dr Nour Raouafi told BBC News. [\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-179674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179674","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=179674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}