{"id":3579,"date":"2010-06-16T17:26:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T00:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/stereo-spacecraft-approaching-diametric-opposition\/"},"modified":"2010-06-16T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T00:32:33","slug":"stereo-spacecraft-approaching-diametric-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/stereo-spacecraft-approaching-diametric-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"STEREO Spacecraft Approaching Diametric Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would that be significant? Well, it would allow for a full 4PI (360&#215;360&deg;) view of the sun. The animated movie of the sun on <a href=\"http:\/\/stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">STEREO&#8217;s Website<\/a> currently has a gap in the coverage of the sun. The spacecraft are in a heliocentric orbit drifting away from the Earth, one leading and one lagging. This diagram shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov\/where.shtml\">current position<\/a> of spacecraft A (ahead) and B (behind). The scale is in astronomical units, the average distance between the earth and sun.<\/p>\n<p>Sun-monitoring instrumentation on spacecraft like SOHO and STEREO have gone a long way in discovering what makes the sun behave in mysterious ways. Also, the data coming back (when not intentionally distorted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change\">IPCC<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2009\/11\/24\/john-lott-climate-change-emails-copenhagen\/\">CRU<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/griffin-vs-hansen\/\">NASA&#8217;s James Hansen<\/a>) can be used to chart the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/correlating-sunspots-to-global-climate\/\">relationship between solar activity and global climate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stereo.jpg' alt='stereo.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would that be significant? Well, it would allow for a full 4PI (360&#215;360&deg;) view of the sun. The animated movie of the sun on STEREO&#8217;s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32,42,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-astronomy","category-global-warming","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}