{"id":5479,"date":"2012-01-07T22:41:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T22:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/unknownskywalker-self-portrait-nasa-research\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:44:00","slug":"unknownskywalker-self-portrait-nasa-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/unknownskywalker-self-portrait-nasa-research\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5479 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/unknownskywalker-self-portrait-nasa-research\/attachment\/5480\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxg7dgaJva1qzyhb5o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxg7dgaJva1qzyhb5o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tumblr_lxg7dgaJva1qzyhb5o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/unknownskywalker.tumblr.com\/post\/15470806970\/self-portrait-nasa-research-pilot-tom-ryan\" target=\"_blank\">unknownskywalker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><big><strong class=\"title\">Self Portrait<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p>NASA research pilot Tom Ryan manages a self-portrait while streaking over New Mexico in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lockheed_U-2\" target=\"_blank\">ER-2 Earth Resources aircraft<\/a> on a high-altitude mission carrying the MABEL laser instrument in April 2011. MABEL (Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar) will demonstrate the photon-counting altimetry approach to simulate measurements from NASA\u2019s next ice-observing satellite, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ICESat-2\" target=\"_blank\">ICESat-2<\/a>, scheduled for launch in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>unknownskywalker: Self Portrait NASA research pilot Tom Ryan manages a self-portrait while streaking over New Mexico in the ER-2 Earth Resources aircraft on a high-altitude mission carrying the MABEL laser instrument in April 2011. MABEL (Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar) will demonstrate the photon-counting altimetry approach to simulate measurements from NASA\u2019s next ice-observing satellite, ICESat-2, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/unknownskywalker-self-portrait-nasa-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}