{"id":333,"date":"2005-09-01T11:11:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T11:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2005-09-01T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T11:11:33","slug":"departure_angle_on_viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/01\/departure_angle_on_viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Departure Angle on Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen it hundreds of times on TV and in the movies: an entire planet shrinking away from the camera, swallowed up by the darkness of space in a matter of seconds as the <i>Enterprise<\/i> warps out of orbit or the <i>Millenium Falcon<\/i> races away from pursuing TIE fighters. Ever wonder what it would really look like to watch our homeworld slide into the distance behind us? Then check out <a href=\"http:\/\/messenger.jhuapl.edu\/the_mission\/flyby_movie.html\">this movie<\/a>, which is composed of several hundred images taken by the spacecraft <i>Messenger<\/i> during a &#8220;gravity assist manuever&#8221; that will slingshot the unmanned probe toward Mercury. The photos were made over the course of 24 hours, so we get to see a complete rotation of the planet during the film. This makes Earth look something like a toy top spinning at an unnatural, crazy speed, but it is a beautiful sight nonetheless. I was especially fascinated by the golden sun-highlight in the upper quadrant; that&#8217;s something no special-effects guy has ever thought to add to his shot, at least not to my knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>I still believe and hope that someday a human being will see this view with their own eyes instead of through a trick of technology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen it hundreds of times on TV and in the movies: an entire planet shrinking away from the camera, swallowed up by the darkness of space in a matter of seconds as the Enterprise warps out of orbit or the Millenium Falcon races away from pursuing TIE fighters. Ever wonder what it would really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","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\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}