{"id":2299,"date":"2025-05-13T19:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:58:26","slug":"smiley-face-over-zacatecas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/smiley-face-over-zacatecas\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiley Face Over Zacatecas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18-682x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18-682x1024.png 682w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18-768x1154.png 768w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18-1022x1536.png 1022w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18.png 1358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250430.html\">Daniel Korona, NASA<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/archivepix.html\">Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/a> for April 30th.   It&#8217;s a nighttime photo of the <em>Cerro de la Bufa<\/em>, a distinctive rock formation standing above the city of Zacatecas.  (Click <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7b\/Vista_del_Cerro_de_la_Bufa_2.JPG\">here<\/a> for a daytime photo). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look at the nighttime sky above the Bufa, and notice that the crescent moon and the planets of Venus and Saturn form a somewhat-sideways smiley face.   It&#8217;s impressive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-17-682x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-17-682x1024.png 682w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-17-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-17-768x1154.png 768w, https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-17.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250430.html\">Daniel Korona, NASA<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For a previous Astronomy Picture of the Day, also taken at night in Zacatecas, and also from Daniel Korona, click <a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/28\/comet-over-zacatecas\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is NASA&#8217;s Astronomy Picture of the Day for April 30th. It&#8217;s a nighttime photo of the Cerro de la Bufa, a distinctive rock formation standing above the city of Zacatecas. (Click here for a daytime photo). Look at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/smiley-face-over-zacatecas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[278,516,279,42],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","tag-astronomy","tag-cerro-de-la-bufa","tag-nasa","tag-zacatecas-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}