{"id":106,"date":"2017-07-04T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/64.25.106.130\/?p=106"},"modified":"2020-01-17T21:33:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T02:33:44","slug":"looking-homeward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/04\/looking-homeward\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking homeward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 13 years the <a href=\"https:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/science\/overview\/\">Cassini<\/a> spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn and its moons, sending back thousands of spectacular <a href=\"https:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/galleries\/hall-of-fame\/\">pictures<\/a>.\u00a0 Now nearing the end of its mission, it will be exploring the ring system and ultimately entering Saturn\u2019s atmosphere on September 15th, 2017.\u00a0 Once in a while when the geometry is suitable, Cassini pauses to take a picture of the Earth while moving between science targets.\u00a0 These homeward <a href=\"https:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/3028\/nasa-image-shows-earth-between-the-rings-of-saturn\/\">looks<\/a> from 900 million miles away evoke a haunting loneliness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 13 years the Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn and its moons, sending back thousands of spectacular pictures.\u00a0 Now nearing the end of its mission, it will be exploring the ring system and ultimately entering Saturn\u2019s atmosphere on September 15th, 2017.\u00a0 Once in a while when the geometry is suitable, Cassini pauses to take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/04\/looking-homeward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking homeward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8,9],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier","tag-cassini","tag-space-flight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irrelevant-tech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}