{"id":151236,"date":"2022-11-27T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-real-possibility-of-mapping-alien-planets"},"modified":"2022-11-27T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T17:22:55","slug":"the-real-possibility-of-mapping-alien-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-real-possibility-of-mapping-alien-planets","title":{"rendered":"The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4d0EGIt1SPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/squarespace.com\/pbs\">https:\/\/squarespace.com\/pbs<\/a> to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.<\/p>\n<p>PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE\">http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to tell you about the craziest proposal for an astrophysics mission that has a good chance of actually happening. A train of spacecraft sailing the sun\u2019s light to a magical point out there in space where the Sun\u2019s own gravity turns it into a gigantic lens. What could such a solar-system-sized telescope do? Pretty much anything. But definitely map the surfaces of alien worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop\">https:\/\/www.pbsspacetime.com\/shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-real-possibility-of-mapping-alien-planets\">Continue reading \u201cThe REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to https:\/\/squarespace.com\/pbs to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http:\/\/to.pbs.org\/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime. I\u2019m going to tell you about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151236","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}