{"id":622,"date":"2005-01-14T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T03:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=622"},"modified":"2005-01-14T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T03:54:07","slug":"from-earth-to-titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/from-earth-to-titan\/","title":{"rendered":"From Earth to Titan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esa.int\/images\/landing01_L2.jpg?w=620\"><br \/>\nThe first view from the surface of another planet&#8217;s moon.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEMBQO71Y3E_index_0.html\">European Space Agency<\/a> probe Huygens has arrived on Titan.   This journey of human seeing began in 1655 when<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christiaan_Huygens\">Christiaan Huygens <\/a>discovered the moon with a telescope.  Since then, human beings have wondered more and more about Saturn&#8217;s biggest moon.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/objects\/planets\/article_304_1.asp\">not that hard to see for yourself<\/a> with a small telescope.  In fact, the Saturn system is almost exactly at opposition right now, 750 million miles away from us and that&#8217;s as close as it will get this time around.  Find someone with a telescope and go have a look for the tiny point of light near the ringed planet.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_T._Hall\">Edward T. Hall<\/a> and Marshall McLuhan wrote about how technology extends the human faculties over time and space.  The Huygens probe was aptly named. Today it shrank the distance of Christiaan Huygens&#8217; viewing from millions of miles to zero.  Humans have eyes on Titan.  It&#8217;s remarkable to think about.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:   Now we can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEM85Q71Y3E_index_0.html\">LISTEN<\/a> to Titan too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first view from the surface of another planet&#8217;s moon. The European Space Agency probe Huygens has arrived on Titan. This journey of human seeing began in 1655 whenChristiaan Huygens discovered the moon with a telescope. Since then, human beings have wondered more and more about Saturn&#8217;s biggest moon. It&#8217;s not that hard to see for yourself with a small telescope. In fact, the Saturn system is almost exactly at opposition right now, 750 million miles away from us and that&#8217;s as close as it will get this time around. Find someone with a telescope and go have a look &#8230;<\/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-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-a2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}