{"id":12795,"date":"2008-06-21T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/06\/saturday-science-great-photos-of-earth-mars-beyond.html"},"modified":"2008-06-21T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T14:31:11","slug":"saturday_science_great_photos_of_earth_mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/saturday_science_great_photos_of_earth_mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Science: Great photos of Earth, Mars, &#038; beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Boston.com&#8217;s new feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/\">The Big Picture<\/a> dispenses with traditional peanut-sized Web photos and showcases great images in the news.&#160; Site designer\/developer\/writer\/photo editor Alan Taylor <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/2008\/06\/interview_with_alan_taylor_creator_of_boston_globes_the_big_picture\/\">talks about his brainchild<\/a> and how it came to be. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robgalbraith.com\/bins\/content_page.asp?cid=7-9311-9484\">Via<\/a>]&#160; Lately they&#8217;ve been harvesting the best photos that billions of tax dollars can buy: <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/06\/the_sky_from_above.html\">The Sky, From Above<\/a> features gorgeous shots of the Space Shuttle at liftoff, as well as of thunderstorms over the American Midwest and more.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/06\/martian_skies.html\">Martian Skies<\/a>, you can view panoramas from Mars and watch dust devils skittering across the Martian landscape. <\/li>\n<li>The site also features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2008\/05\/cassini_nears_fouryear_mark.html\">retrospective of some of the great images<\/a> sent back home by the Cassini space probe over the past four years. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/06\/15803.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">On related notes, apparently the Mars Phoenix rover is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/06\/15903.html\">broadcasting via Twitter<\/a>.&#160; Also, NASA&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/2300-11397_3-6241527-1.html\">space suit design<\/a> looks rather trim &amp; buff.&#160; I kind of miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/2300-11397_3-6241527-3.html?tag=ne.gall.pg\">human Jiffy Pop bag<\/a> look, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston.com&#8217;s new feature The Big Picture dispenses with traditional peanut-sized Web photos and showcases great images in the news.&#160; Site designer\/developer\/writer\/photo editor Alan Taylor talks about his brainchild and how it came to be. [Via]&#160; Lately they&#8217;ve been harvesting the best photos that billions of tax dollars can buy: &#160; The Sky, From Above features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795"}],"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=12795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}