{"id":16859,"date":"2014-11-07T20:15:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/crescent-saturn-and-titan-seen-by-cassini\/"},"modified":"2014-11-07T20:15:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T12:15:38","slug":"crescent-saturn-and-titan-seen-by-cassini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/crescent-saturn-and-titan-seen-by-cassini\/","title":{"rendered":"Crescent Saturn and Titan seen by Cassini"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-903\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-903\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PIA18291.jpg\" alt=\"Saturn and Titan appear as crescents in this image from Cassini. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute\" width=\"624\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PIA18291.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PIA18291-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PIA18291-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PIA18291-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saturn and Titan appear as crescents in this image from Cassini. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Cassini spacecraft \u2014 in its 11th year orbiting Saturn \u2014 has spotted the gas giant and its haze-covered moon Titan suspended in the blackness of space as brilliant crescents.<\/p>\n<p>Encircled by its famous rings faintly visible in this image, Saturn dwarfs its largest moon Titan, which appears as a ring of light thanks to tiny haze particles in its atmosphere. The particles refract light, bending sunbeams to illuminate parts of the moon that would otherwise be in shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists can actually glean rich scientific data from images like the one seen above.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than just pretty pictures, high-phase observations \u2014 taken looking generally toward the Sun, as in this image \u2014 are very powerful scientifically since the way atmospheres and rings transmit sunlight is often diagnostic of compositions and physical states,\u201d NASA wrote in a caption of the photo.<\/p>\n<p>Cassini\u2019s wide angle camera took the photo Aug. 11, 2013, at a distance of 1.1 million miles from Saturn.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn and Titan appear as crescents in this image from Cassini. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute NASA\u2019s Cassini spacecraft \u2014 in its 11th year orbiting Saturn \u2014 has spotted the gas giant and its haze-covered moon Titan suspended in the blackness of space as brilliant crescents. Encircled by its famous rings faintly visible in this image, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2394,1562,2396],"class_list":["post-16859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cassini","tag-saturn","tag-titan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}