{"id":39741,"date":"2011-09-25T15:48:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/vesta%e2%80%99s-snowman-impersonation\/"},"modified":"2011-09-25T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T15:48:49","slug":"vesta%e2%80%99s-snowman-impersonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/vesta%e2%80%99s-snowman-impersonation.php","title":{"rendered":"Vesta\u2019s Snowman Impersonation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/51eda_vesta092011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/51eda_vesta092011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"486\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Interesting trio of craters on Vesta. Click for larger. Image Credit: NASA\/ JPL-Caltech\/ UCLA\/ MPS\/ DLR\/ IDA<\/p><\/div><p>The Dawn spacecraft took this image of a trio of craters on Vesta that vaguely resembles a snowman.&nbsp; There is a large version accessible on the <a href=\"http:\/\/dawn.jpl.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imageoftheday\/image.asp?date=20110919\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn webpage<\/a>.<\/p><p>Given the low gravity of Vesta, probably in the range of three percent of Earth&rsquo;s,&nbsp; I&rsquo;m trying to decide from what direction the impacting bodies hit.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m thinking top to bottom in the image.<\/p><p>Did everybody see the spectacular time-lapse video of the Earth from the ISS?&nbsp; <a title=\"Rob's webpage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtyskies.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/what-does-it-feel-like-to-fly-over-planet-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out on Robs page<\/a> &ndash; truly amazing!.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting trio of craters on Vesta. Click for larger. Image Credit: NASA\/ JPL-Caltech\/ UCLA\/ MPS\/ DLR\/ IDAThe Dawn spacecraft took this image of a trio of craters on Vesta that vaguely resembles a snowman.&nbsp; There is a large version accessible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/vesta%e2%80%99s-snowman-impersonation.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-39741","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\/39741"}],"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=39741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}