{"id":1705,"date":"2004-07-06T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/06\/\/"},"modified":"2004-07-06T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T15:42:31","slug":"1705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/1705\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>See Saturn&#8217;s rings &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/images\/latest\/index.cfm\" rel=\"external\">latest images<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/home\/index.cfm\" rel=\"external\">Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn &amp; Titan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/Cassini-Huygens-space-probe.jpg\" alt=\"The Cassini-Huygens space probe orbiting Saturn\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>The US-European Cassini-Huygens space probe on Thursday sent mind-blowing images of Saturn&#8217;s rings back to earth a few hours after entering the orbit of the second-largest planet of the solar system. The black and white images show segments of the rings and bands of varying sizes and shades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The space probe zipped through Saturn&#8217;s rings on June 30 and slowed down to orbiting speed, in a successful conclusion to a seven-year, 3.5 billion-kilometre voyage to explore the planet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/saturns-rings.jpg\" alt=\"Saturns rings as captured by the space probe\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>For 96 minutes, the probe&#8217;s engines burned to reduce its speed sufficiently to be captured by Saturn&#8217;s gravitational field, which occurred at 0412 GMT on Thursday. Eighteen minutes later, exactly on schedule, NASA received another signal from the probe&#8217;s high-gain antenna indicating that all systems were operating normally and that it was ready to begin its four-year exploration mission.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next four years, Cassini-Huygens will orbit Saturn 76 times and make 52 passes by seven of the planet&#8217;s 31 known moons. It will fly by Saturn&#8217;s largest moon, Titan, 45 times to create a high-resolution map of its surface.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/titan-moon.jpg\" alt=\"Titan in natural colour\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>On December 25, the Cassini craft will release the Huygens probe to land on Titan and become the first man-made object to land on another planet&#8217;s moon. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See Saturn&#8217;s rings &#8211; latest imagesCassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn &amp; Titan The US-European Cassini-Huygens space probe on Thursday sent mind-blowing images of Saturn&#8217;s rings back to earth a few hours after entering the orbit of the second-largest planet of the solar system. The black and white images show segments of the rings and bands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}