{"id":6097,"date":"2017-10-19T05:54:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2017-10-19T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:54:13","slug":"un-lost-in-space-google-maps-heads-to-the-heavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/un-lost-in-space-google-maps-heads-to-the-heavens\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-Lost in Space: Google Maps heads to the heavens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To the <\/em>moon<em>, Alice!<\/em>\u2014and points beyond:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@0,27.5641545,22963938m\/data=!3m1!1e3\">visit these places\u2014along with many other planets and moons\u2014in Google Maps<\/a> right from your computer. For extra fun, try zooming out from the Earth until you&#8217;re in space!<\/p>\n<p>Explore the icy plains of Enceladus, where Cassini discovered water beneath the moon&#8217;s crust\u2014suggesting signs of life. Peer beneath the thick clouds of Titan to see methane lakes. Inspect the massive crater of Mimas\u2014while it might seem like a sci-fi look-a-like, it is a moon, not a space station. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/maps\/space-out-planets-google-maps\/\">More info<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@0,27.5641545,22963938m\/data=!3m1!1e3\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NewImage-19.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the moon, Alice!\u2014and points beyond: Now you can visit these places\u2014along with many other planets and moons\u2014in Google Maps right from your computer. For extra fun, try zooming out from the Earth until you&#8217;re in space! Explore the icy plains of Enceladus, where Cassini discovered water beneath the moon&#8217;s crust\u2014suggesting signs of life. Peer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097"}],"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=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}