{"id":177043,"date":"2023-11-29T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mars-horizon-captured-in-new-image-no-mars-spacecraft-has-ever-had-this-kind-of-view-before"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:23:10","slug":"mars-horizon-captured-in-new-image-no-mars-spacecraft-has-ever-had-this-kind-of-view-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mars-horizon-captured-in-new-image-no-mars-spacecraft-has-ever-had-this-kind-of-view-before","title":{"rendered":"Mars horizon captured in new image: \u201cNo Mars spacecraft has ever had this kind of view before\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-horizon-captured-in-new-image-no-mars-spacecraft-has-ever-had-this-kind-of-view-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA revealed multiple new panoramic images of clouds and dust in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-rover-spots-6000-foot-tall-dust-devil-moving-across-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mars\u2019<\/a> skies and one of its two tiny moons taken by the spacecraft last May. They were captured by the Odyssey\u2019s camera, called the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS.<\/p>\n<p>The rare images were taken from an altitude of about 250 miles, the same altitude at which the International Space Station flies above Earth, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there were astronauts in orbit over Mars, this is the perspective they would have,\u201d said Jonathon Hill, the operations lead of THEMIS. \u201cNo Mars spacecraft has ever had this kind of view before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA revealed multiple new panoramic images of clouds and dust in Mars\u2019 skies and one of its two tiny moons taken by the spacecraft last May. They were captured by the Odyssey\u2019s camera, called the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS. The rare images were taken from an altitude of about 250 miles, the same [\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-177043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177043","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=177043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}