{"id":47,"date":"2006-03-03T21:31:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T05:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-03-04T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T18:23:08","slug":"neat-view-of-titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Neat View of Titan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/multimedia\/pia08126.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/titan%20through%20the%20rings.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe NASA probe to the Saturn system continues to send back amazing imagery. This one shows Titan with its hazy atmosphere showing through the edges of Saturn&#8217;s rings. Here is what the Cassini science team has to say about this image:<br \/>\n<font color=\"009900\"><i><br \/>\nTitan&#8217;s smoggy atmosphere glows brilliantly in scattered sunlight, creating a thin, gleaming crescent beyond Saturn&#8217;s rings. At this slight angle above the ringplane, the thin F ring shines brightly. Light from Titan&#8217;s eastern and western limbs (edges) penetrates the Cassini Division, which looks like a thin gap from this angle.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/font><br \/>\nI am continuously amazed as how wonderful and beautiful the natural universe can be. Check out more sights from Saturn at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/main\/index.html\">NASA Cassini<\/a> website. There are three and a half more years of science to do out there, and plenty of more lovely pictures to see too.<\/p>\n<p>The budget announced by NASA yesterday cuts back on these sorts of science missions, instead putting more money into human space flight especially preparing for a Moon landing in 2018. I definitely look forward to seeing people walking on the surface of our closest celestial neighbor but I find it sad that science flights suffer. I find it hard to rationalize the concept that we must choose between pushing human exploration or expanding human knowledge about the universe around us, but not both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA probe to the Saturn system continues to send back amazing imagery. This one shows Titan with its hazy atmosphere showing through the edges of Saturn&#8217;s rings. Here is what the Cassini science team has to say about this image: Titan&#8217;s smoggy atmosphere glows brilliantly in scattered sunlight, creating a thin, gleaming crescent beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}