{"id":30,"date":"2005-10-06T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2006-09-21T08:38:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T15:38:57","slug":"the-da-vinci-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/the-da-vinci-glow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Da Vinci Glow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2005\/04oct_leonardo.htm\">NASA &#8211; The Da Vinci Glow<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/october\/davinciglow.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/><b>Da Vinci illustration<\/b><\/span>When you think of Leonardo Da Vinci, you probably think of the Mona Lisa or 16th-century submarines or, maybe, a certain suspenseful novel. That&#8217;s old school. From now on, think of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Little-known to most, one of Leonardo&#8217;s finest works is not a painting or an invention, but rather something from astronomy: He solved the ancient riddle of Earthshine.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Earthshine whenever there&#8217;s a crescent Moon on the horizon at sunset. Thursday, Oct. 6, is a good night: sky map. Look between the horns of the crescent for a ghostly image of the full Moon. That&#8217;s Earthshine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of Leonardo Da Vinci, you probably think of the Mona Lisa or 16th-century submarines or, maybe, a certain suspenseful novel. That&#8217;s old school. From now on, think of the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}