{"id":7005,"date":"2018-04-01T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2018-12-25T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T23:24:22","slug":"image-of-the-month-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7005","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Month: Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=7008\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/18-04-28-BLOG-Pluto-2.jpg\" alt=\"18-04-28 BLOG Pluto\" width=\"604\" height=\"420\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are in a great era of space explo\u00adration.&nbsp;This mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent pho\u00adto of Plu\u00adto (colour-enhanced, but oth\u00ader\u00adwise a true visu\u00adal image) was tak\u00aden by the New Hori\u00adzons probe, which is now more than six bil\u00adlion kms from Earth.&nbsp;New Hori\u00adzons, launched in 2006, is enter\u00ading the vast out\u00ader regions of our solar sys\u00adtem, which we are dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading is far big\u00adger and more com\u00adplex than was ever imag\u00adined.&nbsp;The heart-shaped plain called Sput\u00adnik Plani\u00adtia is an ocean of nitro\u00adgen ice, which is semi-flu\u00adid and shows dynam\u00adic fea\u00adtures sim\u00adi\u00adlar to those that occur in polar pack-ice on Earth. Adja\u00adcent to it is a moun\u00adtain\u00adous region charm\u00ading\u00adly named Cthul\u00adhu Mac\u00adu\u00adla, which seems to be coloured by hydro\u00adcar\u00adbon&nbsp;tars.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in a great era of space explo\u00adration.&nbsp;This mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent pho\u00adto of Plu\u00adto (colour-enhanced, but oth\u00ader\u00adwise a true visu\u00adal image) was tak\u00aden by the New Hori\u00adzons probe, which is now more than six bil\u00adlion kms from Earth.&nbsp;New Hori\u00adzons, launched in&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7005\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1494],"tags":[1023,1022,1021,1024],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ai-blog-2018","tag-cthulhu-macua","tag-new-horizons-probe","tag-pluto","tag-sputnik-planitia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7009,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/7009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}