{"id":35240,"date":"2017-03-10T20:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T04:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/pan-moon-of-saturn-looks-like-a-cosmic-ravioli-or-maybe-a-walnut"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:46:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:46:27","slug":"pan-moon-of-saturn-looks-like-a-cosmic-ravioli-or-maybe-a-walnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/pan-moon-of-saturn-looks-like-a-cosmic-ravioli-or-maybe-a-walnut","title":{"rendered":"Pan, moon of Saturn, looks like a cosmic ravioli (or maybe a walnut)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pan-moon-of-saturn-looks-like-a-cosmic-ravioli-or-maybe-a-walnut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ravioli-shaped moon.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a stunning set of close-ups, Pan, a diminutive moon of Saturn, looks like a floating ravioli lost in space, or a wrinkled flying saucer.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Cassini spacecraft took the photographs Tuesday, passing within 15,268 miles of the moon, which has a diameter of about 20 miles, roughly the size of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn C. Porco, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, who leads Cassini\u2019s imaging team, was asleep when Cassini\u2019s shots were transmitted to Earth. She first saw an image on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/pan-moon-of-saturn-looks-like-a-cosmic-ravioli-or-maybe-a-walnut\">http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/pan-moon-of-saturn-l...e-a-walnut<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravioli-shaped moon. In a stunning set of close-ups, Pan, a diminutive moon of Saturn, looks like a floating ravioli lost in space, or a wrinkled flying saucer. NASA\u2019s Cassini spacecraft took the photographs Tuesday, passing within 15,268 miles of the moon, which has a diameter of about 20 miles, roughly the size of New York [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35240","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48575,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35240\/revisions\/48575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}