{"id":3507,"date":"2011-06-23T18:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/23\/ice-moon-helene-in-3d\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T18:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T01:47:18","slug":"ice-moon-helene-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/23\/ice-moon-helene-in-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Moon Helene in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/helene.jpg' title='helene.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/helene.thumbnail.jpg' alt='helene.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>When I surfed over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110623.html\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a> this morning, I saw this 3D image of Helene, one of the moons orbiting Saturn.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed my pair of 3D glasses and saw what this moon would look like if you could see it in stereo. I thought it would be nice to archive it with the 3D stuff and to share it. Of course, if you don&#8217;t have a pair of 3D glasses handy, you can view the <a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/helene2d.jpg' title='2D image here'>2D image here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the technobabble blurb from <a href=\"http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/astropix.html\">APOD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Get out your red\/blue glasses and float next to Helene, small, icy moon of Saturn. Appropriately named, Helene is one of four known Trojan moons, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. A Lagrange point is a gravitationally stable position near two massive bodies, in this case Saturn and larger moon Dione. In fact, irregularly shaped ( about 36 by 32 by 30 kilometers) Helene orbits at Dione&#8217;s leading Lagrange point while brotherly ice moon Polydeuces follows at Dione&#8217;s trailing Lagrange point. The sharp stereo anaglyph was constructed from two Cassini images (N00172886, N00172892) captured during the recent close flyby. It shows part of the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Helene mottled with craters and gully-like features.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I surfed over to the Astronomy Picture of the Day this morning, I saw this 3D image of Helene, one of the moons orbiting Saturn.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobs-3d-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}