{"id":1711,"date":"2017-02-06T21:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceengine.org\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2017-08-18T22:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T22:28:14","slug":"blogpost-of-06-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/news\/blog170206\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter on Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Implemented \"rings winter\" effect on Saturn (don't know if this effect has some name, \"rings winter\" is my invention). It is a well known effect of winter hemisphere became blue as if receives a rings shadow. This is because there become too cold for a methane haze which makes Saturn look yellowish. The atmosphere became clear and cloudless and we see just a clear blue air, like on Uranus and Neptune.<\/p>\n

Before:
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After:
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The system is completely integrated into engine. New variables were introduced for surface and cloud layers and for rings to control the effect, which are:
\n- integrated into planet scripts to use with catalog planets;
\n- procedurally generated for procedural gas giants and cold planets;
\n- integrated into the planet editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Implemented \"rings winter\" effect on Saturn (don't know if this effect has some name, \"rings winter\" is my invention). It is a well known effect of winter hemisphere became blue as if receives a rings shadow. This is because there become too cold for a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceengine.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}