{"id":39518,"date":"2011-09-18T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/picture-of-rhea-and-rumors-of-the-iss\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:46:22","slug":"picture-of-rhea-and-rumors-of-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/picture-of-rhea-and-rumors-of-the-iss.php","title":{"rendered":"Picture of Rhea and Rumors of the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/02aa6_cassini091311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"492\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><p>Cassini's close up of the surface of the Saturn moon Rhea. Credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute<\/p><\/div><p>A combo post of sorts because one thing has nothing to do with the other . . .<\/p><p>I was going to post about the ISS essentially being abandoned, but I&rsquo;m not sure that&rsquo;s really the case. Three of the staff aboard are coming home tomorrow and there have been rumors of the remainder returning in a couple of months if the space station cannot be resupplied by the end of November. Then I hear the Russians have scheduled manned flights for November 12th and December 20th with an unmanned cargo ship on October 30th. So I&rsquo;m not totally sure of what is happening.<\/p><p>All the speculation stems from the loss of a unmanned Soyuz carrying cargo to the ISS prompting Russia to cancel all manned flights pending an investigation in to the mishap. Can&rsquo;t find fault with that decision and with the demise of the shuttle program, well there you go, the whole thing isn&rsquo;t too far a field from being halted.<\/p><p>So the image, well that&rsquo;s a good close shot of a battered Rhea taken by Cassini from 12,000 miles (20,000 km).<\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/photos\/imagedetails\/index.cfm?imageId=4231\">Cassini website<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>In this image obtained by NASA&rsquo;s Cassini spacecraft on its closest flyby of Saturn&rsquo;s moon Rhea, the heavily cratered surface of the moon appears in great detail. Just to the bottom right of the center of this image, a bright area appears to indicate a freshly excavated double crater. Double craters can appear when two gravitationally linked asteroids crash into a surface. This image was obtained by Cassini&rsquo;s narrow-angle camera on Jan. 11, 2011, from a distance of about 20,000 kilometers (12,000 miles) away.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassini's close up of the surface of the Saturn moon Rhea. Credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science InstituteA combo post of sorts because one thing has nothing to do with the other . . .I was going to post about the ISS essentially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/picture-of-rhea-and-rumors-of-the-iss.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-39518","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\/39518"}],"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=39518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}