{"id":163,"date":"2003-08-29T23:11:49","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/29\/mars-up-close\/"},"modified":"2003-08-29T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2003-08-29T17:41:49","slug":"mars-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2003\/08\/mars-up-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars : Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th of Aug 2003, Mars was scheduled to whiz past Earth within a mere 34.6 million miles, bringing them closer to each other than at any time in recorded history. This would make it the brightest night-time object in the sky, except the moon.<\/p>\n<p>As this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/TECH\/space\/08\/27\/mars.closeup\/\">CNN<\/a> story reports :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last time the red planet was this close to Earth 60,000 years ago, man lived in caves&#8230; Mars won&#8217;t pass closer to Earth until 2287, according to astronomers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to the enthusiasm of my lovely wife, that night, we saw a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stardate.org\/resources\/gallery\/gallery_detail.php?id=300\" title=\"Mars UpClose\">planet<\/a> with our naked eyes !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th of Aug 2003, Mars was scheduled to whiz past Earth within a mere 34.6 million miles, bringing them closer to each other than at any time in recorded history. Thanks to the enthusiasm of my lovely wife, that night, we saw a planet with our naked eyes !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}