{"id":19983,"date":"2021-02-21T02:32:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19983"},"modified":"2021-02-20T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T20:02:16","slug":"a-land-far-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-land-far-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"a land far, far, away &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19984\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pia24430-1041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19984\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19984\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pia24430-1041-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hello, Mars, this is the rover Perseverance. Courtesy of NASA<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Star Wars, anyone? It was exciting news last Thursday when the rover Perseverance landed on Mars as planned. Both my wife and I watched the event on television that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things the rover did was send back to earth a low resolution (saves bandwidth &#8211; high resolution photos will come later)\u00a0<em>photograph<\/em>. The robot first sent a twitter to say it landed safely followed by a photograph. It takes eleven minutes through a vacuum at the speed of light to send a message home and as much time to send back to Mars. An epic event and well done by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-sends-sneak-peek-of-mars-landing\">NASA<\/a> team.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I was thrilled to see photography playing a small part in the event. In 1969, we watched when Neil Armstrong first walked on the Moon and took film photographs &#8211; another astonishing milestone. Anyone could later order a copy to be sent by regular mail. Before that event, we could only learn the amount of thrust needed to break from the pull of earth&#8217;s gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Today, digital photography and smartphones make for nearly instantaneous snapping and viewing world wide. But eleven minutes? From Mars? WOW?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Star Wars, anyone? It was exciting news last Thursday when the rover Perseverance landed on Mars as planned. Both my wife and I watched the event on television that afternoon. One of the first things the rover did was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-land-far-far-away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[105,14,3537,2693,3536,613,495,3090],"class_list":["post-19983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-perseverance","tag-photo","tag-photograph","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19987,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19983\/revisions\/19987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}