{"id":735,"date":"2010-01-02T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/snow-ranch-rocket-launch\/"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T07:18:00","slug":"snow-ranch-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/2010\/01\/02\/travel\/snow-ranch-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Ranch LUNAR Rocket Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Snow Ranch Rocket Launch by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/4239866086\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2741\/4239866086_4121e86e40_b.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Ranch Rocket Launch\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Ranch with low power launch under way<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For Eric&#8217;s day we went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunar.org\/\">LUNAR<\/a> monthly high-power rocket launch at Snow Ranch in the Sierra foothills. By being so far away from civilization they can get clearance to go to 15,000 feet. Today had a low ceiling, so there were only a few opportunities for the high-power engines.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket in the image below disappeared into the clouds after an impressive lift off, and had a successful recovery (eventually). Another of the high power rockets wasn&#8217;t quite as lucky &#8211; after screaming up into the clouds a small bang was heard, and instead of floating down under a parachute it just rained parts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"LUNAR Rocket Day by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/4239090451\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4032\/4239090451_4782fd9994_b.jpg\" alt=\"LUNAR Rocket Day\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">High-power launch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was also a beautiful day for exploring the hillsides. You don&#8217;t realize how relentless the wind can be until you see trees like this one.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Wind Blown Tree by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/4239866792\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4239866792_2370c969a5_b.jpg\" alt=\"Wind Blown Tree\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind blown tree<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Eric&#8217;s day we went to the LUNAR monthly high-power rocket launch at Snow Ranch in the Sierra foothills. By being so far away from civilization they can get clearance to go to 15,000 feet. Today had a low ceiling, so there were only a few opportunities for the high-power engines. The rocket in the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel","tag-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}