{"id":109448,"date":"2009-12-28T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2161837"},"modified":"2009-12-28T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T00:17:00","slug":"new-moon-marvels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109448","title":{"rendered":"New moon marvels"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n		The moon Rhea, at far right, is dwarfed by Saturn. The shadow of another moon, Tethys, dots the disk at far left. Click on the image for a larger version.

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The Cassini orbiter has been working overtime during the holidays to deliver a cartload of gifts from Saturn and its moons. Highlights include fresh views of frost-spewing Enceladus and yam-shaped Prometheus, plus a “Nutcracker”-style ballet of Saturnian satellites.<\/P>
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The excitement began last week with the animated images of moons<\/A> passing back and forth with the giant planet and its rings as a backdrop. In an image advisory<\/A>, the folks who process Cassini’s pictures compared the interplay to the dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” ballet.<\/P>
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My favorite movie is “Moon Jumble,”<\/A> which has Rhea in the starring role, joined by its siblings Janus, Mimas and Pandora. (That’s the real<\/EM> Pandora, not the fictional “Avatar” moon<\/A>). Make sure you stretch your browser window wide enough to take in the whole picture.<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  NASA \/ JPL \/ SSI   The moon Rhea, at far right, is dwarfed by Saturn. The shadow of another moon, Tethys, dots the disk at far left. Click on the image for a larger version. The Cassini orbiter has been working overtime during the holidays to deliver a cartload of gifts from Saturn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}