{"id":4912,"date":"2013-04-03T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2013-04-03T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T23:25:00","slug":"the-sun-sets-on-a-martian-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2013\/04\/03\/the-sun-sets-on-a-martian-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Sets on a Martian Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll just put this here, a sunset on Mars as seen by the Curiosity rover:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"LATEST CURIOSITY MARS SUNSET FULL 2012 AUG 7th: 1080P\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aIrEjy54kWQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>I had one of those moments watching this video where I just considered the chain of events that led up to me being able to see this. There&#8217;s a robot on another planet, several million kilometers away, that&#8217;s beaming pictures back to Earth. Those pictures were then made available to the public via a vast, interconnected network that spans the entire globe. One person on that network decided to collate them into a video and make that available via said network. I then, using commodity hardware that anyone can purchase, was able to view that video. The chain of events leading up to that point seem so improbable when you look at as a completed system but they all exist and are all products of human innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that just mind blowingly awesome?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll just put this here, a sunset on Mars as seen by the Curiosity rover: I had one of those moments watching this video where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[3750,23,499,1630,1505],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-curiosity","tag-internet","tag-mars","tag-rover","tag-sunset"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-1he","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}