{"id":77797,"date":"2018-04-14T05:49:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/go-on-a-4k-joyride-around-the-moon-courtesy-of-nasa"},"modified":"2018-04-14T05:49:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:49:34","slug":"go-on-a-4k-joyride-around-the-moon-courtesy-of-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/go-on-a-4k-joyride-around-the-moon-courtesy-of-nasa","title":{"rendered":"Go On A 4K Joyride Around The Moon, Courtesy of NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nr5Pj6GQL2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re so close to getting (back) to the Moon, we can practically taste it. Let\u2019s face it, the Moon is really cool, from it\u2019s highlands down to its massive crater basins. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/new-space-policy-directive-calls-for-human-expansion-across-solar-system\">Donald Trump is entranced<\/a>, and has directed NASA to get us back there.<\/p>\n<p>Well today, NASA\u2019s got a little something to wet our whistle. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov\/mission.html\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)<\/a> mission has been closely examining the Moon\u2019s surface since June 2009, and has been beaming fascinating footage of our only natural satellite back to Earth since then.<\/p>\n<p>And now, using the Orbiter\u2019s treasure trove of detailed footage, NASA has recreated a five-minute \u201cTour of the Moon\u201d animation from 2011 in glorious 4K, including perspectives that can only be seen from space.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/4k-nasa-moon\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/4k-nasa-moon\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re so close to getting (back) to the Moon, we can practically taste it. Let\u2019s face it, the Moon is really cool, from it\u2019s highlands down to its massive crater basins. Even Donald Trump is entranced, and has directed NASA to get us back there. Well today, NASA\u2019s got a little something to wet our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77797","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}