{"id":147038,"date":"2022-09-25T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/chrysalis-saturns-ancient-missing-moon"},"modified":"2022-09-25T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T20:24:35","slug":"chrysalis-saturns-ancient-missing-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/chrysalis-saturns-ancient-missing-moon","title":{"rendered":"Chrysalis: Saturn\u2019s Ancient, Missing Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chrysalis-saturns-ancient-missing-moon3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swirling around the planet\u2019s equator, the rings of Saturn are an obvious indicator that the planet is spinning at a tilt. The belted gas giant rotates at a 26.7-degree angle relative to the plane in which it orbits the sun. Because Saturn\u2019s tilt precesses, like a spinning top, at nearly the same rate as the orbit of its neighbor Neptune.<\/p>\n<p>Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun. In our solar system, it is the fourth-largest planet by size, and third densest. It is named after the Roman god of the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swirling around the planet\u2019s equator, the rings of Saturn are an obvious indicator that the planet is spinning at a tilt. The belted gas giant rotates at a 26.7-degree angle relative to the plane in which it orbits the sun. Because Saturn\u2019s tilt precesses, like a spinning top, at nearly the same rate as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}