{"id":10043,"date":"2017-02-11T08:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10043"},"modified":"2017-02-11T08:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T13:50:58","slug":"video-spacecraft-destroys-sundog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/video-spacecraft-destroys-sundog\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Spacecraft destroys sundog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the <em>EarthSky<\/em> blog today the authors posted a short video of a spacecraft destroying a sundog. \u00a0 You&#8217;ve probably seen sundogs or parhelia before&#8211;they are optical phenenoma caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals which show up as spots of light to the left or right of the sun, usually near sunrise or sunset. \u00a0Often they are rainbow-colored because light waves of different colors travel through the ice crystals at different speeds, resulting in bands of color. \u00a0This spacecraft launch, which occurred back in 2010, created a shock wave around it that disrupted the sundog as it passed near the ice crystal clouds. \u00a0You can view the video and read more about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/human-world\/video-when-a-spacecraft-destroyed-a-sundog\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/human-world\/video-when-a-spacecraft-destroyed-a-sundog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about atmospheric optics and see more great pictures at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.atoptics.co.uk\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10044\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/sundog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10044\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/sundog-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/sundog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/sundog-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/sundog-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/sundog.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: PaulT Christine Tschuch, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the EarthSky blog today the authors posted a short video of a spacecraft destroying a sundog. \u00a0 You&#8217;ve probably seen sundogs or parhelia before&#8211;they are optical phenenoma caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals which show up as spots of light to the left or right of the sun, usually near sunrise or sunset. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10043\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}