{"id":1371,"date":"2015-06-22T08:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2015-06-22T08:20:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:20:15","slug":"those-pics-of-pluto-from-my-vacation-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/22\/those-pics-of-pluto-from-my-vacation-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Pics of Pluto from my Vacation Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. won&#8217;t be arriving next week, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22630250.600-first-visit-to-pluto-could-rewrite-the-solar-systems-story.html#\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (10 June 2015, paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And with a 12-watt transmitter on board, the signal is so weak that it can carry only about a kilobit of information per second across 5 billion kilometres. Precious images and other discoveries from the fly-by will take 16 months to download.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But at least they&#8217;re warm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pluto&#8217;s realm \u2013 dark, cold and far from home \u2013 is tough territory. Solar panels are no use at this distance, so New Horizons runs on heat from the radioactive decay of a lump of plutonium. Under such weak sunlight an unheated probe would cool to below -200 \u00b0C, so New Horizons is cosseted in a multilayer blanket that traps waste heat from its instruments and electrical systems, keeping its interior at about room temperature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. won&#8217;t be arriving next week, according to NewScientist (10 June 2015, paywall): And with a 12-watt transmitter on board, the signal is so weak that it can carry only about a kilobit of information per second across 5 billion kilometres. Precious images and other discoveries from the fly-by will \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/22\/those-pics-of-pluto-from-my-vacation-trip\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}