{"id":14468,"date":"2017-06-07T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14468"},"modified":"2017-06-07T11:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:23:24","slug":"video-the-golden-age-of-exploration-talk-by-nasa-jpl-director-charles-elachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14468","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;The Golden Age of Exploration&#8221; &#8211; Talk by NASA JPL director Charles Elachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Elachi, Caltech professor and JPL director (2001-2016),<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>describes the excitement and impact of discoveries made by JPL&#8217;s robotic missions at destinations around the solar system and beyond over the past 15 years\u2014from rovers and orbiters at Mars to Cassini at Saturn to discoveries about planets around other stars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gcsgz8wF_ZA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Elachi, Caltech professor and JPL director (2001-2016), describes the excitement and impact of discoveries made by JPL&#8217;s robotic missions at destinations around the solar system and beyond over the past 15 years\u2014from rovers and orbiters at Mars to Cassini at Saturn to discoveries about planets around other stars. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[87,78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-al","category-mars","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Lm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14919,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14919","url_meta":{"origin":14468,"position":0},"title":"Video: Cassini mission to Saturn comes to an end","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Cassini spacecraft\u00a0made its final orbit of Saturn this morning: NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn\u00a0 https:\/\/youtu.be\/V5Ho30EMRm4 A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's\u00a0Cassini spacecraft\u00a0made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn, ending its 13-year tour\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Europa, Titan, &amp; 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