{"id":22003,"date":"2018-05-08T02:43:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T06:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=22003"},"modified":"2018-05-08T02:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T06:43:16","slug":"throwing-down-the-gauntlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/05\/throwing-down-the-gauntlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing down the gauntlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took them a while to get to this, but yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a> is a taunting response to a post of mine back in February<\/a>, where I talked about capturing sunrise on the Tycho crater of the moon. I mean, not personally<\/em> (as far as anyone knows,) but remotely, viewing at higher magnification from Earth. Their<\/em> version, also taken at sunrise, shows a huge boulder that sits atop the peak, and if you go back to the photo that I included with my post (I provide these links for a reason,) you can see that it’s even visible in that image – not mine, but NASA’s detail image of that peak. It’s 120 meters across, meaning it would more than cover a football field, the universal measurement of big things here in the states. They put it down to being a bit of landed rubble from the impact that created Tycho in the first place, but I personally suspect it’s a glacial erratic…<\/p>\n

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Main image and upper inset courtesy of NASA<\/a>, Arizona State U.<\/a>, LRO<\/a>;<\/strong> Lower Inset courtesy of Gregory H. Revera<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
Now, it must be said that NASA did not capture this image from a ground-based telescope like any real man would, but was cheating and using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite probe cruising by just 50 km above the moon’s surface. Sure, anyone<\/em> could get super-detailed shots just by launching their own orbital satellite to the moon!<\/p>\n

But is that the way you want to play, NASA? Well, fine<\/em> – game on! Let’s see you–… <\/p>\n

Okay, I got nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took them a while to get to this, but yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is a taunting response to a post of mine back in February, where I talked about capturing sunrise on the Tycho crater of the moon. I mean, not personally (as far as anyone knows,) but remotely, viewing at higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[4382,4381,4380,4383,4384,27,1848],"class_list":["post-22003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-photo","tag-arizona-state-university","tag-can-you-top-this-a-ha-ha","tag-gregory-h-revera","tag-lets-see-what-kind-of-close-up-bug-shots-the-lro-can-get-huh-huh","tag-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter","tag-nasa","tag-tycho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}