{"id":221141,"date":"2014-09-09T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"bbe74149a37a4bddc3164d3bbe27b9a2"},"modified":"2014-09-09T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:22:00","slug":"space-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221141","title":{"rendered":"Space Aurora"},"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\/2014\/09\/space_aurora\/14808306-1-eng-GB\/Space_Aurora_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of an aurora as he circled Earth on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAurora occur when electrons from the Sun hit Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.&nbsp;Auroras occur frequently over both the North and South polar regions, but are often difficult to see from populated areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander is a member of the International Space Station Expedition 40\/41 crew. He is spending five and a half months &nbsp;living and working on the Station for his Blue Dot mission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with Alexander Gerst on social media via: <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandergerst.esa.int\" title=\"Alexander Gerst Social Media\" >alexandergerst.esa.int<\/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\/2014\/09\/space_aurora\/14808306-1-eng-GB\/Space_Aurora_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of an aurora as he circled Earth on the International Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAurora occur when electrons from the Sun hit Earth&#8217;s atmosphere.&nbsp;Auroras occur frequently over both the North and South polar regions, but are often difficult to see from populated areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander is a member of the International Space Station Expedition 40\/41 crew. He is spending five and a half months &nbsp;living and working on the Station for his Blue Dot mission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with Alexander Gerst on social media via: <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandergerst.esa.int\" title=\"Alexander Gerst Social Media\" target=\"_blank\">alexandergerst.esa.int<\/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-221141","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\/221141","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=221141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221141\/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=221141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}