{"id":6347,"date":"2014-10-30T22:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T02:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2014-10-30T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T02:37:52","slug":"a-glimpse-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6347","title":{"rendered":"A glimpse of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft sometimes catch a glimpse of the Sun as it reflects off a sea or an ocean. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?release=2014-378\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6349\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sunny_titanian_seas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sunny_titanian_seas.jpg 608w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sunny_titanian_seas-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Except that this example was not captured by Earth-orbiting spacecraft. The sea here is not a terrestrial ocean. It is a hydrocarbon sea of Saturn&#8217;s largest moon, Titan.<\/p>\n<p>Just to clarify, the reflection of the Sun is in the upper left of the image, where the outline of the sea is also clearly visible. The redder, arrow-shaped object closer to the center is a cloud formation.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6347' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft sometimes catch a glimpse of the Sun as it reflects off a sea or an ocean. Here is an example: Except that this example was not captured by Earth-orbiting spacecraft. The sea here is not a terrestrial ocean. It is a hydrocarbon sea of Saturn&#8217;s largest moon, Titan. Just to clarify, the reflection of <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6347' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6350,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/6350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}