{"id":133,"date":"2006-04-15T17:13:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T21:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=133"},"modified":"2006-04-15T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T21:53:01","slug":"esas-venus-express-returns-first-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/04\/15\/esas-venus-express-returns-first-images\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA&#8217;s Venus Express returns first images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/images\/VIRTIS_combi3_L.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/images\/VIRTIS_combi3_S.jpg\"  style=\"float:left;margin:5px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEM9FZNFGLE_index_0.html\">ESA Portal &#8211; Unexpected detail in first-ever Venus south pole images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the ESA probe Venus Express approached it&#8217;s orbit with the neighboring planet, it snapped a few images.  One of the few released thus far shows incredible detail even though it was taken from over 206 thousand kilometers away.  I can&#8217;t wait to see the high resolution images that will be possible as the probe descends into a lower orbit.  It will also be interesting to compare the results of this latest probe with those of <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.jpl.nasa.gov\/magellan\/\">NASA&#8217;s Magellan probe<\/a>, whose mission ended in late 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA Portal &#8211; Unexpected detail in first-ever Venus south pole images As the ESA probe Venus Express approached it&#8217;s orbit with the neighboring planet, it snapped a few images. One of the few released thus far shows incredible detail even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/04\/15\/esas-venus-express-returns-first-images\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}