{"id":12542,"date":"2007-11-03T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T19:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/11\/sputnik-via-flash-the-wobbly-moon-more.html"},"modified":"2007-11-03T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T19:37:03","slug":"sputnik_via_flash_the_wobbly_moon_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/sputnik_via_flash_the_wobbly_moon_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Sputnik via Flash, the wobbly moon, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing out this weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the NY Times offers a nice, brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2007\/09\/24\/science\/space\/20070924_SPUTNIK_GRAPHIC.html?th=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;emc=th&amp;adxnnlx=1194135599-P3U0wAEcgL2EH2ICERaOMQ\">interactive tour<\/a> of that first human-made spacecraft, as well as a timeline of space exploration. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2007\/09\/24\/science\/space\/20070924_SPUTNIK_GRAPHIC.html?th&amp;emc=th\"><\/a>Evidently the moon wobbles during a lunar cycle, as <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0709\/lunation_ajc.gif\">this timelapse animation<\/a> shows. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/09\/14049.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of our satellite, Adobe&#8217;s resident Academy Award-winner Mike Kanfer enthusiastically recommends the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intheshadowofthemoon.com\/\"><em>In the Shadow of the Moon<\/em><\/a>.&#160; I get chills watching the trailer.<\/li>\n<li>What if we had no moon?&#160; In Astrobiology Magazine scientist Bernard Foing <a href=\"http:\/\/astrobio.net\/news\/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=2507&amp;mode=thread&amp;order=0&amp;thold=0\">charts the moon&#8217;s influences on the history of earth<\/a>, from the formation of solid land to the development of our eyes. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/10\/30\/how-things-would-be.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>CNET shows images from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/2300-11397_3-6211234.html\">Japanese space probe<\/a> in lunar orbit.   They report, &#8220;China is expected to launch its first lunar exploration satellite later this month; India has plans for a moon launch in April 2008; the next U.S. moon mission is slated for 2008; and Russia could be flying private citizens around the moon and back as early as 2009.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\t    Meanwhile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Google-offers-30-million-to-land-on-the-moon\/2100-11397_3-6207800.html\">Google is offering a $30 million prize<\/a> to a private team that can land a robot on the moon. <\/li>\n<li>And speaking of Google, hide your crops, Cheech: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/How+law+enforcement+uses+Google+Earth\/2100-1025-6208034.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e433\">law enforcement uses Google Earth<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Fast networking technology has enabled researchers to assemble an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primidi.com\/2007\/09\/06.html#a1948\">Earth-sized telescope<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/jd\/archives\/2007\/09\/earth-sized_tel.cfm\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Nerding out on Wikipedia, I happened across a cool shot of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image%3ADelta_IV_Medium_Rocket_DSCS.jpg\">Delta IV rocket lift-off<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[File under <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/scientific_technical_imaging\/\">Scientific &amp; Technical Imaging<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacing out this weekend: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the NY Times offers a nice, brief interactive tour of that first human-made spacecraft, as well as a timeline of space exploration. Evidently the moon wobbles during a lunar cycle, as this timelapse animation shows. [Via] Speaking of our satellite, Adobe&#8217;s resident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}