{"id":23219,"date":"2019-12-02T05:56:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23219"},"modified":"2019-12-02T05:56:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:56:26","slug":"mercury-crosses-a-quiet-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23219","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Crosses a Quiet Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ofZTOxC9JQ4\/maxresdefault.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What&#8217;s that black dot crossing the Sun? The planet Mercury. Mercury usually passes over or under the Sun, as seen from Earth, but last month the Solar System&#8217;s innermost planet appeared to go just about straight across the middle. Although witnessed by planet admirers across the globe, a particularly clear view was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in Earth orbit. The featured video was captured by the SDO&#8217;s HMI instrument in a broad range of visible light, and compresses the 5 1\/2 hour transit into about 13 seconds. The background Sun was unusually quiet &#8212; even for being near Solar Minimum &#8212; and showed no sunspots. The next solar transit by Mercury will occur in 2032. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap191202.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s that black dot crossing the Sun? The planet Mercury. Mercury usually passes over or under the Sun, as seen from Earth, but last month the Solar System&#8217;s innermost planet <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=23219\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-23219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23220,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23219\/revisions\/23220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}