{"id":2586,"date":"2017-10-09T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:29:10","slug":"hyperion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=2586","title":{"rendered":"Hyperion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cassini-image-068.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Hyperion (Credits: NASA)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" title=\"Hyperion\" src=\"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cassini-image-068-low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA dixit:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;August 22, 2016. The moon Hyperion tumbles as it orbits Saturn. Hyperion&#8217;s (168 miles or 270 kilometers across) spin axis has a chaotic orientation in time, meaning that it is essentially impossible to predict how the moon will be spinning in the future. So far, scientists only know of a few bodies with such chaotic spins. The image was taken in green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera.<\/p>\n<p>The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 203,000 miles (326,000 kilometers) from Hyperion and at a Sun-Hyperion-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 10 degrees. Image scale is 1 mile (2 kilometers) per pixel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Space Science Institute<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 22, 2016. The moon Hyperion tumbles as it orbits Saturn. Hyperion&#8217;s (168 miles or 270 kilometers across) spin axis has a chaotic orientation in time, meaning that it is essentially impossible to predict how the moon will be spinning in the future. So far, scientists only know of a few bodies with such chaotic spins. The image was taken in green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[391,577,15,1],"tags":[269,615,21,386],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-cassini-images","category-robotic-exploration","category-space-exploration","tag-cassini","tag-hyperion","tag-nasa","tag-saturn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}