{"id":4345,"date":"2009-12-08T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2009-12-08T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T11:30:42","slug":"take-a-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4345","title":{"rendered":"Take a Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classzone.com\/books\/earth_science\/terc\/content\/visualizations\/es2701\/es2701page01.cfm\">Examine the vast distances between planets in the solar system<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This animation simulates a voyage from the sun past all nine planets. For convenience, the planets are lined up in the same direction. The animation shows each planet&#8217;s average distance from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>At the speed of today&#8217;s fastest spacecraft (~20 km\/second), it would take almost ten years to travel this distance. Even at the speed of light, the trip would last 5 1\/2 hours. In this animation, the apparent speed of the viewer is over 300 times the speed of light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examine the vast distances between planets in the solar system This animation simulates a voyage from the sun past all nine planets. For convenience, the planets are lined up in the same direction. The animation shows each planet&#8217;s average distance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4345\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}