{"id":259,"date":"2011-01-30T08:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T08:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2011\/01\/30\/challenger_astronauts_memorialized_on_the_moon\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T08:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T08:26:58","slug":"challenger_astronauts_memorialized_on_the_moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/2011\/challenger.moon.m.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<i>Image: Craters in the center of Apollo basin (36\u00b0S, 209\u00b0E) named after Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts, LROC WAC mosaic, ~190 km wide [NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University].<\/i><br \/>\nApollo is a 524 km-diameter impact basin located within the center of the the giant South Pole-Aitken basin. Apollo is also a Constellation Project Region of Interest, identified by NASA as a notional area for future human lunar exploration. The Constellation Region of Interest is located in the southwest corner of the mare deposit that fills this basin-within-a-basin.<br \/>\nAfter the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger, seven craters on the eastern rim of this basin were named after the crew: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Dick Scobee, Michael Smith.<br \/>\nGo to the <a href=\"http:\/\/wms.lroc.asu.edu\/lroc_browse\/view\/challenger\">WAC mosaic<\/a> of the entire Apollo basin and surroundings.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lroc.sese.asu.edu\/news\/index.php?\/archives\/334-Challenger-Astronauts-Memorialized-on-the-Moon.html#extended\">More information and images<\/a> at LROC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Craters in the center of Apollo basin (36\u00b0S, 209\u00b0E) named after Space Shuttle Challenger astronauts, LROC WAC mosaic, ~190 km wide [NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University]. Apollo is a 524 km-diameter impact basin located within the center of the the giant South Pole-Aitken basin. Apollo is also a Constellation Project Region of Interest, identified by NASA &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Challenger Astronauts Memorialized on the Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,34,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps-atlases-cartography","category-moon","category-nomenclature-and-naming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}