{"id":228,"date":"2012-12-31T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=228"},"modified":"2012-12-31T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:30:00","slug":"monday-music-mars-the-bringer-of-war-gustav-holst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2012\/12\/31\/monday-music-mars-the-bringer-of-war-gustav-holst\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Music: Mars, The Bringer of War (Gustav Holst)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For New Year&#8217;s Eve, I wanted to choose something which reflected some special part of 2012.\u00a0 I also liked the idea of something astronomy-oriented, since we are, after all, celebrating another orbit of the Earth around the Sun.\u00a0 The landing and footage from NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Rover on Mars seemed to fit the bill on a historic and astronomic level, and of course the obvious music to match with this is<em> Mars<\/em> from Holst&#8217;s <em>Planets<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, nobody has quite got to this combination yet, and making a video of this sort is not really within my skill-set, not to mention the fact that there would undoubtedly be copyright issues associated with combining images and music, neither of which I own!\u00a0 So for today, I&#8217;m including two videos for your wonderment and delight (because really, science is amazing stuff).\u00a0 The first is a clip of Holst&#8217;s <em>Mars<\/em>, accompanied by a computer simulation of Curiosity&#8217;s launch and journey.\u00a0 The second is a video of Curiosity&#8217;s landing on Mars on August 6th, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zZWOGcdC_PI&#038;w=420&#038;h=315][youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fJgeoHBQpFQ&#038;w=560&#038;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!\u00a0 May 2013 bring you more wonders, more music, and more amazing science.\u00a0 Because we can never have too much amazing science.<\/p>\n<p>(and if you want more images of Mars, checkout NASA&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/msl\/images\/index.html\">here<\/a>&#8230; not to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z-lIaliojlw\">this illuminating footage<\/a> from the Curiosity probe just after landing&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For New Year&#8217;s Eve, I wanted to choose something which reflected some special part of 2012.\u00a0 I also liked the idea of something astronomy-oriented, since we are, after all, celebrating another orbit of the Earth around the Sun.\u00a0 The landing and footage from NASA&#8217;s Curiosity Rover on Mars seemed to fit the bill on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,294,416,445,476,515,699],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-curiosity","tag-gustav-holst","tag-lorchestre-national-de-france","tag-lorin-maazel","tag-mars-the-bringer-of-war","tag-nasa","tag-the-planets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}