{"id":26663,"date":"2025-09-22T04:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26663"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:56:25","slug":"26663","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26663","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2509\/Saturn6Years_Sultan_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>On Saturn, the rings tell you the season. On Earth, today marks an equinox, the time when the Earth&#8217;s equator tilts directly toward the Sun. Since Saturn&#8217;s grand rings orbit along the planet&#8217;s equator, these rings appear most prominent &#8212; from the direction of the Sun &#8212; when the spin axis of Saturn points toward the Sun. Conversely, when Saturn&#8217;s spin axis points to the side, an equinox occurs, and the edge-on rings are hard to see from not only the Sun &#8212; but Earth. In the featured montage, images of Saturn between the years of 2020 and 2025 have been superposed to show the giant planet passing, with this year&#8217;s equinox, from summer in the north to summer in the south. Yesterday, Saturn was coincidently about as close as it gets to planet Earth, and so this month the ringed giant&#8217;s orb is relatively bright and visible throughout the night. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250922.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturn, the rings tell you the season. On Earth, today marks an equinox, the time when the Earth&#8217;s equator tilts directly toward the Sun. Since Saturn&#8217;s grand rings orbit <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26663\" 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-26663","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\/26663","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=26663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26664,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26663\/revisions\/26664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}