{"id":969,"date":"2006-12-30T10:50:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T10:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/30\/2006-in-astronomy-pictures\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T10:50:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T10:50:40","slug":"2006-in-astronomy-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/30\/2006-in-astronomy-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 in Astronomy Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to be close to the last person on the Internet to link to this, but in the unlikely event that you haven&#8217;t already seen it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/12\/27\/the-top-ten-astronomy-images-of-2006\/\">Phil Plait presents the best astronomy pictures of 2006<\/a>. My personal favorite of his images is probably this one:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-67a95f6e438c79d227e8ea702d42e844-opportunity_mars.jpg\" alt=\"i-67a95f6e438c79d227e8ea702d42e844-opportunity_mars.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t sent all that many probes to Mars, and it&#8217;s not often that they snap pictures of each other. And the Mars rovers are really a fabulous story&#8211; it&#8217;s rare to see the kind of Murphy&#8217;s Law violation that turns a 90-day mission into more than 1000 days of continuous operation.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish she&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/opportunitygrrl.livejournal.com\/\">update her LiveJournal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to be close to the last person on the Internet to link to this, but in the unlikely event that you haven&#8217;t already seen it, Phil Plait presents the best astronomy pictures of 2006. My personal favorite of his images is probably this one: We haven&#8217;t sent all that many probes to Mars,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/30\/2006-in-astronomy-pictures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2006 in Astronomy Pictures<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}