{"id":467,"date":"2013-08-21T00:03:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T05:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2013-08-25T18:03:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T23:03:32","slug":"why-the-space-program-is-so-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/why-the-space-program-is-so-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Space Program is SO worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov\/jpeg\/PIA17120.jpg\" title=\"Saturn, Mimas, and Pandora\" align=\"center\" width=\"553\" height=\"568\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Greetings and Salutations;<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There are so many amazing images that NASA is collecting, that I thought I would share one here. &nbsp; &nbsp;This is an image of two of Saturn&#8217;s moons (Mimas and Pandora) hanging in space just outside of the Rings. &nbsp; It is an image taken by the&nbsp;Cassini spacecraft as it orbits the planet, and, is yet another of a amazing flood of images from this craft.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mimas is interesting, as it is also known as &#8220;The Deathstar Moon&#8221;, because the huge crater left from a meteor impact has left a bowl-like depression in JUST the same general area as that monumental space craft from the Star Wars Saga. &nbsp; &nbsp;It is a pretty amazing sight.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;However, images like this are not only kind of amazing to view, but, some quite useful, scientific data can be gathered from them. &nbsp; Rather than repeating the information, let me point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2013\/08\/18\/cassini_and_saturn_s_moons_mimas_pandora_and_the_rings.html\">The Bad Astronomer blog<\/a> entry that discusses this at some length.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Greetings and Salutations; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;There are so many amazing images that NASA is collecting, that I thought I&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2013\/08\/21\/why-the-space-program-is-so-worth-it\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2,4,16,18],"tags":[389,390,391,388,392],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomers","category-astronomy-2","category-cosmology-astronomy-2","category-ruminations","category-something-good-this-way-comes","tag-mimas","tag-pandora","tag-rings","tag-saturn","tag-scientific-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}