{"id":541,"date":"2004-09-14T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=541"},"modified":"2004-09-14T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T23:37:51","slug":"beware-io-dust-the-cutest-moon-in-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/beware-io-dust-the-cutest-moon-in-the-solar-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Io Dust: the cutest moon in the solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2004\/14sep_jupiterdust.htm\">in this story<\/a> that endears me to Io, Jupiter&#8217;s spitting moon.  I think it&#8217;s in the tagline: &#8220;Beware: Io Dust. Jupiter&#8217;s moon Io is shooting tiny volcanic bullets at passing spacecraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Io&#8217;s volcanos are erupting all the time, shooting streams of dust into the solar system.  These streams get picked up by Jupiter&#8217;s gravity and accelerate to around 300km\/s which is pretty durn fast.  <\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be a spaceship passing by, you get pelted by high speed smoke.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an elegant defense for our solar system&#8217;s gas giant, even if its not terribly effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something in this story that endears me to Io, Jupiter&#8217;s spitting moon. I think it&#8217;s in the tagline: &#8220;Beware: Io Dust. Jupiter&#8217;s moon Io is shooting tiny volcanic bullets at passing spacecraft.&#8221; Apparently Io&#8217;s volcanos are erupting all the time, shooting streams of dust into the solar system. These streams get picked up by Jupiter&#8217;s gravity and accelerate to around 300km\/s which is pretty durn fast. If you happen to be a spaceship passing by, you get pelted by high speed smoke. It&#8217;s an elegant defense for our solar system&#8217;s gas giant, even if its not terribly effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-8J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}