{"id":207783,"date":"2013-06-25T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"0e1a5ba68ccaeb71830ae330c22b5bd9"},"modified":"2013-06-25T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T11:49:00","slug":"perfect-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=207783","title":{"rendered":"Perfect sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/06\/perfect_sky\/12911834-1-eng-GB\/Perfect_sky_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is spending six months on the International Space Station conducting experiments and keeping the orbital outpost running with five colleague astronauts.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Luca\u2019s spare time he photographs our world from 400 km high, looking out of the Station\u2019s panoramic Cupola. Luca tweeted the picture above with the comment: \u201cThe sky is simply perfect.\u201d Of course, for people living down below, the weather would have been described as \u201cpatchy, with sunlight coming through at times\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrbiting at 28 800 km\/h, Luca is privileged to see our planet from a unique perspective. Here, Earth\u2019s curvature is clearly visible, with the thin layer of pale blue atmosphere separating us from the harshness of space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo see more of Luca&#8217;s incredible shots, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/www.flickr.com\/volaremission\">Volare mission Flickr channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/06\/perfect_sky\/12911834-1-eng-GB\/Perfect_sky_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is spending six months on the International Space Station conducting experiments and keeping the orbital outpost running with five colleague astronauts.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Luca\u2019s spare time he photographs our world from 400 km high, looking out of the Station\u2019s panoramic Cupola. Luca tweeted the picture above with the comment: \u201cThe sky is simply perfect.\u201d Of course, for people living down below, the weather would have been described as \u201cpatchy, with sunlight coming through at times\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOrbiting at 28 800 km\/h, Luca is privileged to see our planet from a unique perspective. Here, Earth\u2019s curvature is clearly visible, with the thin layer of pale blue atmosphere separating us from the harshness of space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo see more of Luca&#8217;s incredible shots, please visit the <a href=\"\/www.flickr.com\/volaremission\">Volare mission Flickr channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208300,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207783\/revisions\/208300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}