{"id":5113,"date":"2011-07-06T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/beautiful-shot-of-three-of-saturns-moons\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:21:53","slug":"beautiful-shot-of-three-of-saturns-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/beautiful-shot-of-three-of-saturns-moons\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Shot of Three of Saturn&#8217;s Moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cassinimoons-thumb-600x460-131869.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cassinimoons-thumb-600x460-131869.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626035395844578722\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(Photo from NASA, text from New Scientist)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">A study in contrasts, this photo captures three illuminated moons as a darkened Saturn looms in the shadows. Only the planet&#8217;s rings are visible but its shape can be traced from the way it partially obscures its rings and one of its moons.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">The large foreground moon is Rhea at 1528 kilometres across. Nearly a third of Rhea&#8217;s size, sunny Enceladus is on the right. Dione, at 1123 kilometres wide, rounds out the trio to the left with a night-cloaked Saturn obstructing part of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">The photo was taken by NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens\">Cassini spacecraft<\/a> in April. Cassini has been exploring Saturn&#8217;s 62 known moons since it reached the ringed planet in 2004.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo from NASA, text from New Scientist) A study in contrasts, this photo captures three illuminated moons as a darkened Saturn looms in the shadows. Only the planet&#8217;s rings are visible but its shape can be traced from the way it partially obscures its rings and one of its moons. The large foreground moon is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/beautiful-shot-of-three-of-saturns-moons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beautiful Shot of Three of Saturn&#8217;s Moons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saturn","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5113\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}