{"id":62,"date":"2006-10-26T13:19:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog2\/?p=62"},"modified":"2006-10-26T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T21:19:18","slug":"crossing-our-eyes-at-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/crossing-our-eyes-at-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing our eyes at the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/stereo\/main\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TRICO1_full.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.otherthings.com\/blog\/images\/TRICO1_full.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/><font size=-2><i>Photo from the <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov\/bestofsoho\/bestofmenu.html#\">SOHO<\/a> project.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>When we were first building the <a href=\"http:\/\/eyestilts.com\">Telestereoscope<\/a>, one of my fantasies was to follow up our ten-foot machine with a <a href=\"http:\/\/eyestilts.com\/ideas.html\">really big one<\/a>.  Of course, to my medium-sized brain, &#8220;really big&#8221; meant stuff like clouds and mountains.<\/p>\n<p>To the geniuses at NASA, &#8220;really big&#8221; means something a bit different.  Like, how about, I dunno, let&#8217;s say, the biggest thing in the Solar System?  The <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/stereo\/main\/index.html\">STEREO<\/a> project is a pair of satellites that will take <i>3D pictures<\/i> of the freaking <i>sun<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check NASA&#8217;s explanatory <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/tv.gsfc.nasa.gov\/stereopackag.mov\">video<\/a>, complete with totally mindblowing footage of solar explosions.  Wow.  Imagine a movie like <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov\/bestofsoho\/Movies\/trico\/trico.mov\">this one<\/a> but in stereo 3D!  There&#8217;s more on yesterday&#8217;s launch at <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/missionlaunches\/061025_stereo_launch.html\">Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from the SOHO project. When we were first building the Telestereoscope, one of my fantasies was to follow up our ten-foot machine with a really big one. Of course, to my medium-sized brain, &#8220;really big&#8221; meant stuff like clouds and mountains. To the geniuses at NASA, &#8220;really big&#8221; means something a bit different. Like, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/crossing-our-eyes-at-the-sun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crossing our eyes at the sun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyestilts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}