{"id":16339,"date":"2010-04-29T08:10:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T08:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/what%e2%80%99s-cassini-up-to\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T08:10:49","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-cassini-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/what%e2%80%99s-cassini-up-to.php","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Cassini Up To?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/af503_Cassini-huygens_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5753\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/af503_Cassini-huygens_anim.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>NASA\/JPL Cassini with Huygens probe intact<\/p><\/div><p>Have you been keeping up with Cassini?&nbsp; Today (April 27th Pacific and  April 28th UTC) it&rsquo;s scheduled to make a flyby of Enceladus, passing as  close as 60 miles above the surface of the moon.&nbsp; According to the  mission counter, the closest point in the flyby will be at about 7pm  CDT, April 27th &ndash; United States.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/af503_Enceladus-Flyby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5754\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/af503_Enceladus-Flyby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>NASA\/JPL artist's conception of Enceladus flyby<\/p><\/div><p>Cassini will fly through the water-rich plumes over the moon&rsquo;s south  polar region.&nbsp; In addition, Cassini scientists will be conducting  gravity studies on this flyby which will help determine what lies  beneath the ice crust on the surface of Enceladus.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/af503_Enceladus-South-Pole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5755\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/af503_Enceladus-South-Pole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>NASA\/JPL South Pole of Enceladus<\/p><\/div><p>All the data we have  up to this point indicates there is an ocean of liquid water under the  ice crust.&nbsp; Because of this, Enceladus looks very likely to be a source  of life.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b5f5_Enceladus-South-Pole-close-up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5756 \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b5f5_Enceladus-South-Pole-close-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>NASA\/JPL Close-up of South Pole region of Enceladus<\/p><\/div><p>I would really, REALLY like to get a sample from those plumes under my  microscope.<\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b5f5_critters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5757   \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b5f5_critters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"346\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Can I look?  Oh-please-oh-please-oh-please!<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\/JPL Cassini with Huygens probe intactHave you been keeping up with Cassini?&nbsp; Today (April 27th Pacific and April 28th UTC) it&rsquo;s scheduled to make a flyby of Enceladus, passing as close as 60 miles above the surface of the moon.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/what%e2%80%99s-cassini-up-to.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-16339","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\/16339"}],"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=16339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}