{"id":15702,"date":"2010-04-23T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/an-illusion\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:11:32","slug":"an-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/an-illusion.php","title":{"rendered":"An Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b8c43_cassini042110.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b8c43_cassini042110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>A Cassini illusion.  Click to make the image larger and spot the illusion.  Image credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>Here we have an image of Saturn&rsquo;s moon Rhea, the F-ring and the little moon directly above Rhea in the rings is Prometheus.<\/p><p>Rhea is the second largest of Saturn&rsquo;s many moons with a diameter of 949 miles (1,528 km) and Prometheus is only 53 miles (86 km) across.<\/p><p>Having the rings edge-on creates an illusion. Click the image to see the full sized version before clicking the &ldquo;more&rdquo; link below to learn what the illusion is.<br><span><\/span><br>It appears the moon Rhea is in the foreground.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s not.&nbsp; Rhea is actually further away from Cassini&rsquo;s camera than the rings and little Prometheus.<\/p><p>To see this image in its original context <a title=\"Click to see this image at the Cassini site\" href=\"http:\/\/photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov\/catalog\/PIA12616\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cassini illusion. Click to make the image larger and spot the illusion. Image credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science InstituteHere we have an image of Saturn&rsquo;s moon Rhea, the F-ring and the little moon directly above Rhea in the rings is Prometheus.Rhea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/an-illusion.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}