{"id":854,"date":"2007-01-29T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2013-05-18T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T22:19:42","slug":"stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/01\/29\/stereo\/","title":{"rendered":"STEREO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image855\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/sun-explode.jpg\" alt=\"sun-explode.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><strong>&#8220;The Sun is anything but a stable yellow ball in the sky&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212; That&#8217;s how the narration begins in the <a href=\"http:\/\/learners.gsfc.nasa.gov\/mediaviewer\/stereo2\/\">NASA video presentation about the STEREO mission<\/a>. The video itself is well done, with informative commentary and the usual outstanding NASA animated graphics. I highly recommend that you follow the link above and watch the four-minute video.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s twin STEREO spacecraft completed a series of complex maneuvers Sunday to position the spacecraft in their mission orbits. The spacecraft will be in position to produce the first 3-D images of the sun by April. <\/p>\n<p>As physicists learn more about the Sun and it&#8217;s less than subtle behavior, we can expect to be able to &#8220;<strong>connect the sunspots<\/strong>&#8221; and identify the extent to which the Sun influences Earth&#8217;s environment and climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Sun is anything but a stable yellow ball in the sky&#8221; &#8212; That&#8217;s how the narration begins in the NASA video presentation about the STEREO&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-environment","category-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}