{"id":40631,"date":"2019-11-12T19:17:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=40631"},"modified":"2023-11-12T02:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T01:20:30","slug":"mercury-transit-beautiful-images-that-we-will-not-see-from-earth-until-2032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/11\/12\/mercury-transit-beautiful-images-that-we-will-not-see-from-earth-until-2032\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Transit: beautiful images that we will not see from Earth until 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday the Mercury Transit was happened, a phenomenon that occurs when the Sun, that planet and the Earth align, allowing us to see that small black circle passing over the solar disk.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/04\/03\/they-sneak-into-a-russian-base-and-there-record-two-abandoned-space-shuttles\/\">They sneak into a Russian base and there record two abandoned space shuttles<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/05\/12\/curious-things-you-can-find-in-nasa-facilities-with-google-maps\/\">Curious things you can find in NASA facilities with Google Maps<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The last Transit of Mercury took place on May 9, 2016, only three years ago, but <strong>the next time it happens will be on November 13, 2032.<\/strong> Maybe many of us will not see it anymore ... You can see here the image that it captured yesterday the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space telescope launched by NASA in 2010 in order to study the Sun. <strong>The images are beautiful and fascinating, and at the same time terrible:<\/strong> the proximity of Mercury to the Sun causes a temperature to reach its surface from 350\u00baC per day (water at sea level boils at 100\u00baC) and at night it drops to -170\u00baC.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0yNzSwlnQ2Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Monday the Mercury Transit was happened, a phenomenon that occurs when the Sun, that planet and the Earth align, allowing us to see that small black circle passing over the solar disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16878],"tags":[13260,13262,1304,6668,13261],"class_list":["post-40631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-space","tag-mercury","tag-mercury-transit","tag-nasa","tag-solar-dynamics-observatory","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}