{"id":1050,"date":"2007-06-27T10:26:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T10:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2007-06-27T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T10:26:52","slug":"morning_dose_of_awesomeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/27\/morning_dose_of_awesomeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Dose of Awesomeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scalzi <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aol.com\/johnmscalzi\/bytheway\/entries\/2007\/06\/27\/the-coolest-picture-youll-see-today\/7561\">points the way<\/a> this morning to what he calls &#8220;the coolest picture you&#8217;ll see today&#8221;, and I&#8217;ve got to agree: it&#8217;s amazing. It&#8217;s a shot that was taken back in 2003 by the Mars Global Surveyor space probe, in orbit around the Red Planet. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msss.com\/mars_images\/moc\/2003\/05\/22\/earth_jupiter_100.jpg\">here<\/a>, then click the photo for maximum bigness. You&#8217;ll see the half-phase Earth and moon at the top of the photo; scroll all the way to the bottom and you&#8217;ll see Jupiter and three of its moons. That&#8217;s the third and fifth planets of our system seen in the same frame, photographed from the fourth planet. <i>And<\/i> the photo has a high-enough resolution that both planets are easily identifiable, even by a non-astronomer type. With a little digital massaging, you can even tell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msss.com\/mars_images\/moc\/2003\/05\/22\/earth_americas250.jpg\">which hemisphere<\/a> of our world was turned toward the camera. Beautiful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in the technical details, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msss.com\/mars_images\/moc\/2003\/05\/22\/\">here<\/a>. But whatever you do, have a look at the photo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scalzi points the way this morning to what he calls &#8220;the coolest picture you&#8217;ll see today&#8221;, and I&#8217;ve got to agree: it&#8217;s amazing. It&#8217;s a shot that was taken back in 2003 by the Mars Global Surveyor space probe, in orbit around the Red Planet. Click here, then click the photo for maximum bigness. You&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}