{"id":218475,"date":"2013-12-06T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"7fb0e6a467d68685c7a2ce01b06d3eaf"},"modified":"2013-12-06T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:27:00","slug":"liege-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218475","title":{"rendered":"Li\u00e8ge, Belgium"},"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\/12\/liege_belgium\/13442097-1-eng-GB\/Liege_Belgium_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSeen from the International Space Station at night Li\u00e8ge, or Luik in Flemish, lights up like a neural network revealing the city\u2019s long history. Lights from streets and motorways run in seemingly random ways, growing over centuries since the area was first inhabited. The Meuse river that flows through the city centre can hardly be seen in between the city lights.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMain pathways \u2014 the brighter-lit motorways \u2014 link Liege to neighbouring cities and countries: Luxembourg&nbsp; and France at the bottom of the picture, Germany to the right and The Netherlands above.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSubtle differences across international borders are noticeable. The lighting around the city of Aachen, Germany at the top right has a greener tone than the strong yellow seen in Belgium. A motorway leaving Li\u00e8ge that heads straight up in the picture connects the city to Maastricht in The Netherlands. In this image the road seems to end as the light disappears. In reality Belgium\u2019s northern neighbours simply do not use the same lighting scheme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis clear picture at night was taken using ESA\u2019s Nightpod camera aid that helps astronauts track objects on Earth from the International Space Station. Following Earth\u2019s motion automatically, the tripod takes clear images in low lights with off-the-shelf professional cameras \u2013 400 km above our planet in space.<\/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\/12\/liege_belgium\/13442097-1-eng-GB\/Liege_Belgium_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSeen from the International Space Station at night Li\u00e8ge, or Luik in Flemish, lights up like a neural network revealing the city\u2019s long history. Lights from streets and motorways run in seemingly random ways, growing over centuries since the area was first inhabited. The Meuse river that flows through the city centre can hardly be seen in between the city lights.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMain pathways \u2014 the brighter-lit motorways \u2014 link Liege to neighbouring cities and countries: Luxembourg&nbsp; and France at the bottom of the picture, Germany to the right and The Netherlands above.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSubtle differences across international borders are noticeable. The lighting around the city of Aachen, Germany at the top right has a greener tone than the strong yellow seen in Belgium. A motorway leaving Li\u00e8ge that heads straight up in the picture connects the city to Maastricht in The Netherlands. In this image the road seems to end as the light disappears. In reality Belgium\u2019s northern neighbours simply do not use the same lighting scheme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis clear picture at night was taken using ESA\u2019s Nightpod camera aid that helps astronauts track objects on Earth from the International Space Station. Following Earth\u2019s motion automatically, the tripod takes clear images in low lights with off-the-shelf professional cameras \u2013 400 km above our planet in space.<\/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-218475","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\/218475","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=218475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218475\/revisions"}],"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=218475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}