{"id":24663,"date":"2022-01-04T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24663"},"modified":"2022-01-04T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:56:12","slug":"moons-beyond-rings-at-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24663","title":{"rendered":"Moons Beyond Rings at Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2201\/RheaJanus_Cassini_1020.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What&#8217;s happened to that moon of Saturn? Nothing &#8212; Saturn&#8217;s moon Rhea is just partly hidden behind Saturn&#8217;s rings. In 2010, the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting Saturn took this narrow-angle view looking across the Solar System&#8217;s most famous rings. Rings visible in the foreground include the thin F ring on the outside and the much wider A and B rings just interior to it. Although it seems to be hovering over the rings, Saturn&#8217;s moon Janus is actually far behind them. Janus is one of Saturn&#8217;s smaller moons and measures only about 180 kilometers across. Farther out from the camera is the heavily cratered Rhea, a much larger moon measuring 1,500 kilometers across. The top of Rhea is visible only through gaps in the rings. After more than a decade of exploration and discovery, the Cassini spacecraft ran low on fuel in 2017 and was directed to enter Saturn&#8217;s atmosphere, where it surely melted. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220104.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happened to that moon of Saturn? Nothing &#8212; Saturn&#8217;s moon Rhea is just partly hidden behind Saturn&#8217;s rings. In 2010, the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting Saturn took this <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24663\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24664,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24663\/revisions\/24664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}