{"id":18215,"date":"2018-11-07T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18215"},"modified":"2018-11-07T07:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:30:32","slug":"bepicolombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/07\/bepicolombo\/","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting away from this politics stuff for at least a moment, <em>BepiColombo<\/em> successfully launched\u00a0 a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0<em>BepiColombo<\/em> is a <em><strong>European Space Agency \/\u00a0Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/strong><\/em> joint mission to Mercury. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/bepicolombo\/60833-esa-pr-28-2018-bepicolombo-blasts-off-to-investigate-mercurys-mysteries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BepiColombo comprises two science orbiters: ESA&#8217;s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA&#8217;s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO, or &#8216;Mio&#8217;). The ESA-built Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) will carry the orbiters to Mercury using a combination of solar electric propulsion and gravity assist flybys, with one flyby of Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury, before entering orbit at Mercury in late 2025.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in seven years we&#8217;ll be seeing a bunch of mysteries solved, and bigger bunch of new mysteries generated, because that&#8217;s how this sort of thing works. Wheeee!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sci.esa.int\/science-e-media\/img\/content\/images\/2018\/BepiColombo_approaching_Mercury_295w.jpg?resize=368%2C207\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"207\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>BepiColombo approaching Mercury. <br \/>Credit: spacecraft: <strong>ESA\/ATG medialab; Mercury: NASA\/JPL <\/strong><\/em><br \/><em>(Presumably an artist&#8217;s work, but no name is given. Perhaps stitching photos and stuff together doesn&#8217;t count as artistry.)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting away from this politics stuff for at least a moment, BepiColombo successfully launched\u00a0 a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0BepiColombo is a European Space Agency \/\u00a0Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency joint mission to Mercury. From the press release: BepiColombo comprises two science orbiters: ESA&#8217;s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA&#8217;s Mercury Magnetospheric \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/07\/bepicolombo\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18229,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18215\/revisions\/18229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}