{"id":1692,"date":"2007-12-19T21:16:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T01:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2007-12-19T21:19:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T01:19:01","slug":"mars-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"Mars Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> was reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7151190.stm\">&#8216;the active glacier&#8217;<\/a>, found by the ESA&#8217;s Mars Express earlier this week, which led me to look up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Mars_Express\/index.html\">Mars Express website<\/a>. Excellent (and amazing) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esa-mmg\/mmg.pl?mission=Mars+Express&#038;keyword=+--%3E+Keyword&#038;idf=+--%3E+ID&#038;Ic=on&#038;subm3=GO\">imagery<\/a>. My favourite one is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esa-mmg\/mmg.pl?b=b&#038;type=I&#038;mission=Mars%20Express&#038;single=y&#038;start=63\">photo of the Cydonia region<\/a>. While we&#8217;re at it, you may remember that (quite a while ago) Google launched maps for Mars, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mars\/#lat=40.713955&#038;lon=-9.492187&#038;map=visible&#038;q=Cydonia\">so here you go<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The ESA has been plugging away to make their websites as user-centric as possible: there are desktop downloads available in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Mars_Express\/SEMZNUW4QWD_0.html\">screensavers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Mars_Express\/SEMNQX57ESD_0.html\">wallpaper<\/a>. While I&#8217;m not really into screensavers (I have been running the same screensaver for ages, it appears: only recently I decided to switch to a screensaver depicting an aquarium in 3D OpenGL), I thought that the Mars Express wallpapers would have been interesting enough <em>if<\/em> they were available in the 16:9 resolution ratios (like 1280 x 800). They&#8217;re not and frankly, I&#8217;m too lazy to start cutting those images up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading about &#8216;the active glacier&#8217;, found by the ESA&#8217;s Mars Express earlier this week, which led me to look up the Mars Express website. Excellent (and amazing) imagery. My favourite one is the photo of the Cydonia region. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[224,202,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}