{"id":949,"date":"2008-10-28T03:35:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T08:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=949"},"modified":"2008-10-28T03:35:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T08:35:56","slug":"all-right-mr-demille-im-ready-for-my-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/949","title":{"rendered":"All Right, Mr. DeMille, I&#039;m Ready for my Close-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/10\/enceladus_up_close.html\">Enceladus up close<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saturn&#8217;s tiny, icy moon Enceladus has recently been visited by NASA&#8217;s Cassini orbiter on several very close approaches &#8211; once coming within a mere 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the surface. Scientists are learning a great deal about this curious little moon. Only about 500 kilometers wide (310 miles), it is very active, emitting internal heat, churning its surface, and &#8211; through cryovolcanism &#8211; ejecting masses of microscopic ice particles into Saturnian orbit. Cassini has been orbiting Saturn for over 4 years now, and has provided some amazing views of tiny Enceladus, some collected here. Another close flyby is scheduled for Halloween, October 31st. (26 photos total)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enceladus up close Saturn&#8217;s tiny, icy moon Enceladus has recently been visited by NASA&#8217;s Cassini orbiter on several very close approaches &#8211; once coming within a mere 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the surface. Scientists are learning a great deal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/949\">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":[38,39],"tags":[117,201],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-physics","tag-big-picture","tag-enceladus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}