{"id":410,"date":"2012-08-09T08:12:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T08:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2012\/08\/09\/hacking_soviet_moon_photos\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T08:12:55","slug":"hacking_soviet_moon_photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Soviet Moon Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/2012\/luna9close.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.airspacemag.com\/moon\/2012\/08\/scooping-the-soviets\/\">Scooping the Soviets<\/a>, Paul Spudis<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;The team at Jodrell Bank assumed that the mission was over, surmising that Luna 9 probably hit the Moon too hard or was designed as a crash lander.  Then to their astonishment, the probe began transmitting radio signals and the observatory recorded them, uncertain as to their meaning. Lovell thought &#8211; suppose these signals were simply an ordinary telefax communication?  If these transmissions were pictures of the lunar surface, perhaps the signals the observatory recorded could be read by a commercial facsimile machine.  But Jodrell Bank Observatory had no such machine; the observatory was a scientific laboratory, which in those days displayed its received radio signals in the form of line graphs made by paper strip recorders.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scooping the Soviets, Paul Spudis &#8220;The team at Jodrell Bank assumed that the mission was over, surmising that Luna 9 probably hit the Moon too hard or was designed as a crash lander. Then to their astonishment, the probe began transmitting radio signals and the observatory recorded them, uncertain as to their meaning. Lovell thought &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hacking Soviet Moon Photos&#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":[22,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landing-sites-robotic","category-luna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}