{"id":6721,"date":"2016-04-13T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6721"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:23:10","slug":"what-is-airglow-see-it-in-this-video-from-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/what-is-airglow-see-it-in-this-video-from-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;airglow&#8221;?  See it in this video from the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Airglow&#8221; is\u00a0defined as a luminosity or \u201cglowing\u201d given off by the Earth\u2019s own atmosphere. \u00a0Marshall Shepherd describes the science of airglow in a recent blog post at <em>Forbes.com<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/03\/18\/the-science-of-earths-airglow\/#109c4b8876fc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0It turns out that what we think of as airglow (not to be confused with aurora) is actually a collection of several different phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Samenow of <em>Capital Weather Gang<\/em> also provided a link to a short video from the International Space Station showing some spectacular images of airglow (as well as a bunch of lightning strikes). \u00a0You can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2016\/04\/07\/video-international-space-station-grabs-wondrous-view-of-earths-airglow\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6722\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/airglow.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6722\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6722\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/airglow-300x168.png\" alt=\"Source: NASA\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/airglow-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/airglow-246x138.png 246w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/airglow.png 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Airglow&#8221; is\u00a0defined as a luminosity or \u201cglowing\u201d given off by the Earth\u2019s own atmosphere. \u00a0Marshall Shepherd describes the science of airglow in a recent blog post at Forbes.com here. \u00a0It turns out that what we think of as airglow (not to be confused with aurora) is actually a collection of several different phenomena. Jason Samenow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6721","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\/6721","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=6721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6721\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}