{"id":4645,"date":"2026-05-04T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:34:44","slug":"atlantis-and-magellan-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4645","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis and Magellan &#8211; 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30582 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Magellan-Spacecraft-e1777372473721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"192\" \/>Atlantis, an American shuttle spacecraft, was launched in 1989. It successfully deployed Magellan<\/strong>, which traveled to Venus to map the planet\u2019s surface. Magellan encountered Venus on August 10, 1990 and began taking high-quality radar images on September 15, 1990. It continued to photograph the planet\u2019s surface, making six complete mapping cycles. Magellan mapped about 98 percent of Venus&#8217;s surface. It was commanded to plunge into Venus&#8217;s surface, still sending data, on October 13, 1994. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/missions\/magellan\/in-depth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magellan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis, an American shuttle spacecraft, was launched in 1989. It successfully deployed Magellan, which traveled to Venus to map the planet\u2019s surface. Magellan encountered Venus on August 10, 1990 and began taking high-quality radar images on September 15, 1990. It continued to photograph the planet\u2019s surface, making six complete mapping cycles. Magellan mapped about 98 <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4645' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[5424,4681,5241,1878,5517,1467,5515,5518,1879],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5424","tag-4681","tag-5241","tag-atlantis","tag-august-10","tag-magellan","tag-may-4","tag-october-13","tag-venus","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\/4645","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=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30584,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions\/30584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}