{"id":1630,"date":"2008-03-04T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T20:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/04\/nasa-makes-new-moon-triptick-a\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T20:16:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T20:16:33","slug":"nasa-makes-new-moon-triptick-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/nasa-makes-new-moon-triptick-a\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Makes New Moon Triptick and Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is considering a trip to the moon, and this time, the destination would be the scenic South Polar Region.  Pursuant to this, they have compiled a set of more detailed than ever high-resolution radar maps of the Man in the Moon&#8217;s chin.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-6aa6ff29f4794756bd6f82604daa5e44-southpole_strip.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-6aa6ff29f4794756bd6f82604daa5e44-southpole_strip.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory collected the data using the Goldstone Solar System Radar located in California&#8217;s Mojave Desert. Three times in 2006, JPL scientists targeted the moon&#8217;s south polar region using Goldstone&#8217;s 70-meter radar dish. The antenna, three-quarters the size of a football field, sent a 500-kilowatt strong, 90-minute long radar stream 231,800 miles to the Moon. The radar illuminated the rough-hewn lunar surface over an area measuring about 400 by 250 miles. Signals were reflected back to two of Goldstone&#8217;s 34-meter antennas on Earth. Scientists have been analyzing the echoes ever since, and the data were released by NASA for the first time this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you visit the site (the web site, not the landing site) <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/29feb_radarmoon.htm?list832167\">you can watch a cool movie<\/a> of the sunrise\/sunset across the span of one lunar day.  (It is a simulation, but very realistic looking, insofar as the moon looks real to us Earthlings.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is considering a trip to the moon, and this time, the destination would be the scenic South Polar Region. Pursuant to this, they have compiled a set of more detailed than ever high-resolution radar maps of the Man in the Moon&#8217;s chin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-qi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}