{"id":686,"date":"2006-10-17T09:01:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2006-10-17T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T16:02:55","slug":"the-rings-of-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/the-rings-of-saturn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rings of Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo, taken by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/main\/index.html\">Cassini-Huygens Probe<\/a> shows Saturn&#8217;s rings as we&#8217;ve never seen them. Taken from behind the planet while the Sun was eclipsed, the photo reveals that there are more rings than previously believed. <\/p>\n<p>Funny things happen when you get the illumination coming from behind an object. <strong>Damsel<\/strong> once took a photo of <strong>Air Force One<\/strong> that gave the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=389\">illusion of a transparent vertical stabilizer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0610\/rings.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the whole story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/media\/cassini-20061011c.html\">NASA Finds Saturn&#8217;s Moons May be Creating New Rings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo, taken by the Cassini-Huygens Probe shows Saturn&#8217;s rings as we&#8217;ve never seen them. Taken from behind the planet while the Sun was eclipsed, the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-astronomy","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}