{"id":8819,"date":"2017-07-28T04:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2017-07-28T04:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T04:56:35","slug":"noodle-mosaic-of-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=8819","title":{"rendered":"Noodle Mosaic of Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1707\/PIA21617CassiniNoodle1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>On April 26 the Cassini spacecraft swooped toward Saturn on the first of its Grand Finale dives between Saturn and rings. In this long, thin, noodle mosaic, a rapid series of 137 low resolution images captured by Cassini&#8217;s wide-angle camera track its progress across the gas giant&#8217;s swirling cloud tops. The mosaic projection maps the arc along Saturn&#8217;s atmospheric curve on to a flat image plane. At top, the first mosaic panel is centered at 90 degrees north, about 72,400 kilometers above Saturn&#8217;s dark north polar vortex. As the mosaic progresses it narrows, the pixel scale shrinking from 8.7 kilometers to 1 kilometer per pixel. For the last panel, the spacecraft is 8,374 kilometers above a region 18 degrees north of Saturn&#8217;s equator. Frame orientation changes near the bottom as Cassini rotates to maneuver its large, dish-shaped, high-gain antenna forward, providing a shield before crossing Saturn&#8217;s ring plane. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2tL8zqm\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26 the Cassini spacecraft swooped toward Saturn on the first of its Grand Finale dives between Saturn and rings. In this long, thin, noodle mosaic, a rapid series <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=8819\" 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-8819","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\/8819","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=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8820,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}