{"id":2306,"date":"2011-03-21T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T02:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2011-06-21T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T06:05:43","slug":"up-close-and-personal-with-saturn-and-its-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/up-close-and-personal-with-saturn-and-its-moons\/","title":{"rendered":"Up close and personal with Saturn and its moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2310\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 414px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PIA07736_modest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2310\" title=\"PIA07736_modest\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PIA07736_modest-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tethys&#39; icy surface. Image: NASA\/JPL\/SSI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 414px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PIA081340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2309\" title=\"PIA081340\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/PIA081340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wispy Dione steps in front of Tethys (February 10, 2006). Image: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2308\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 368px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/507127main_n00165590-full_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2308\" title=\"507127main_n00165590-full_full\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/507127main_n00165590-full_full-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/507127main_n00165590-full_full-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/507127main_n00165590-full_full-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/507127main_n00165590-full_full-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/507127main_n00165590-full_full.jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dione&#39;s surface. Image: NASA\/JPL\/SSI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Cassini Spacecraft has taken pictures of Tethys and Dione. Both moons were discovered in 1684 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini. 327 years later, we know that both moons have icy surfaces composed almost entirely of water-ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Cassini Spacecraft has taken pictures of Tethys and Dione. Both moons were discovered in 1684 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini. 327 years later, we know that both moons have icy surfaces composed almost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[73,71,72,70],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space","tag-cassini-spacecraft","tag-moon","tag-nasa-2","tag-saturn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}