{"id":89314,"date":"2019-04-08T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/parker-solar-probe-completes-second-close-approach-to-sun"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:43:44","slug":"parker-solar-probe-completes-second-close-approach-to-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/parker-solar-probe-completes-second-close-approach-to-sun","title":{"rendered":"Parker Solar Probe Completes Second Close Approach to Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parker-solar-probe-completes-second-close-approach-to-sun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close approach to the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>At 6:40 p.m. EST on April 4, the spacecraft\u2014traveling at 213,200 mph\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/parkersolarprobe\/2019\/04\/05\/parker-solar-probe-completes-second-close-approach-to-the-sun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed within 15 million miles of our star<\/a>, tying its own distance record as the closest-ever ship to the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The mission team at John\u2019s Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., kept a close eye on the spacecraft via the Deep Space Network: They were tuned in for four hours before, during, and after approach, monitoring the probe\u2019s health during the critical moments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/parker-solar-probe-completes-second-close-approach-to-sun-1782013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close approach to the Sun. At 6:40 p.m. EST on April 4, the spacecraft\u2014traveling at 213,200 mph\u2014passed within 15 million miles of our star, tying its own distance record as the closest-ever ship to the Sun. The mission team at John\u2019s Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89314","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=89314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}