{"id":409,"date":"2006-07-20T08:34:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T08:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/20\/astronomy-and-literature\/"},"modified":"2006-07-20T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T08:34:57","slug":"astronomy-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/20\/astronomy-and-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy and Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <A href=\"http:\/\/james-nicoll.livejournal.com\/406288.html\">James Nicoll<\/a>, there&#8217;s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=675\">press release from the Cassini mission<\/a> talking about new radar maps of a region on the surface of Titan that&#8217;s been dubbed &#8220;Xanadu.&#8221; The topography looks very Earth-like, with rivers and lakes and oceans of methane, providing Dr. Jonathan Lunine an opportunity to show off the benefits of a classical education:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Although Titan gets far less sunlight and is much smaller and colder than Earth, Xanadu is no longer just a mere bright spot, but a land where rivers flow down to a sunless sea,&#8221; Lunine said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Based on the other comments quoted,  this is another case where &#8220;said&#8221; really means &#8220;typed into an email sent to the PR office,&#8221; because nobody talks like that&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via James Nicoll, there&#8217;s a new press release from the Cassini mission talking about new radar maps of a region on the surface of Titan that&#8217;s been dubbed &#8220;Xanadu.&#8221; The topography looks very Earth-like, with rivers and lakes and oceans of methane, providing Dr. Jonathan Lunine an opportunity to show off the benefits of a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/20\/astronomy-and-literature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Astronomy and Literature<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}