{"id":57788,"date":"2017-05-31T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nasa-announces-historic-mission-to-finally-touch-the-sun"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:01:53","slug":"nasa-announces-historic-mission-to-finally-touch-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nasa-announces-historic-mission-to-finally-touch-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"NASA announces historic mission to finally \u2018touch the sun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SAm2TJH99i4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 NASA is revealing new details Wednesday about its first-ever mission to fly into the sun\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The Solar Probe Plus will be the first spacecraft to fly directly into the sun\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>NASA says it will zoom within 4 miles of the sun\u2019s surface and will hopefully answer decades old questions about the physics of how stars work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com\/2017\/05\/31\/nasa-announces-historic-mission-to-finally-touch-the-sun\/\">http:\/\/wgntv.com\/2017\/05\/31\/nasa-announces-historic-mission-...h-the-sun\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 NASA is revealing new details Wednesday about its first-ever mission to fly into the sun\u2019s atmosphere. The Solar Probe Plus will be the first spacecraft to fly directly into the sun\u2019s atmosphere. NASA says it will zoom within 4 miles of the sun\u2019s surface and will hopefully answer decades old questions about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57788","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57922,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57788\/revisions\/57922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}