{"id":519676,"date":"2010-04-07T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13706"},"modified":"2010-04-07T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:00:38","slug":"space-station-crosses-the-dark-side-of-moon-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519676","title":{"rendered":"Space Station crosses the dark side of Moon! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Image of the Day <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1633.html\">posted a fantastic shot<\/a>: the International Space Station crossing the face of the Moon:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/440862main_2010-2545_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/04\/iss_moon.jpg\" alt=\"iss_moon\" title=\"iss_moon\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13707\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow! You can just make out the shape of the ISS. And don&#8217;t let the relative sizes fool you: the Moon is about a thousand times farther away than the space station. It&#8217;s a <em>wee<\/em> bit bigger.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget that right now <em>Discovery<\/em> is docked to ISS. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/04\/06\/watch-the-skies-for-the-shuttle-and-iss\/\">Check for them in your night sky<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><em>Image credit: Fernando Echeverria, NASA<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUMP2nuHEHsfqf3-bgbtnHwiZIc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUMP2nuHEHsfqf3-bgbtnHwiZIc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUMP2nuHEHsfqf3-bgbtnHwiZIc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FUMP2nuHEHsfqf3-bgbtnHwiZIc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/P2GCl4MWoo0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/rp3CVrzj0pY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Image of the Day posted a fantastic shot: the International Space Station crossing the face of the Moon: Wow! You can just make out the shape of the ISS. And don&#8217;t let the relative sizes fool you: the Moon is about a thousand times farther away than the space station. It&#8217;s a wee bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519676","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\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}