{"id":457,"date":"2005-01-14T06:50:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T11:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=457"},"modified":"2005-12-05T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T19:30:39","slug":"space-probe-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/space-probe-trooper","title":{"rendered":"Space Probe Trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huygens probe is set to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/space\/01\/14\/huygens.titan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">land on Titan<\/a>, one of Saturn&#8217;s moons. Here&#8217;s an artist&#8217;s rendering of the landing. Or is that a new album cover from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfte.org\/yesworld\/images\/albums\/Tales_Wide.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Yes<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2005\/TECH\/space\/01\/14\/huygens.titan\/vert.huygens.titan.art.nasa.jpg?w=525\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huygens probe is set to land on Titan, one of Saturn&#8217;s moons. Here&#8217;s an artist&#8217;s rendering of the landing. 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