{"id":15091,"date":"2026-07-23T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=15091"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:20:50","slug":"solar-impulse-completed-its-circumnavigation-of-earth-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=15091","title":{"rendered":"Solar Impulse Completed Its Circumnavigation of Earth in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Solar Impulse<\/em> completed its circumnavigation of earth in 2016.<\/strong> Using only solar energy, the Swiss airplane started its flight from Abu Dhabi, United Emirates, on March 9, 2015. Bertrand Piccard and Andr\u00e9 Borschberg, the co-founders, wanted to show that flight was possible using only solar energy. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/sservi.nasa.gov\/articles\/solar-impulse-to-fly-across-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar Impulse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar Impulse completed its circumnavigation of earth in 2016. Using only solar energy, the Swiss airplane started its flight from Abu Dhabi, United Emirates, on March 9, 2015. Bertrand Piccard and Andr\u00e9 Borschberg, the co-founders, wanted to show that flight was possible using only solar energy. Children could learn more at: Solar Impulse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5304,2368,2367,1660,5737,2369,2366],"class_list":["post-15091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5304","tag-andre-borschberg","tag-bertrand-piccard","tag-circumnavigation-of-earth","tag-july-23","tag-socar-energy","tag-solar-impulse","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25103,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions\/25103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}