{"id":225544,"date":"2015-03-25T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"e1ee5bae7a564a9e012828b0f0c632ad"},"modified":"2015-03-25T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T08:50:00","slug":"the-colours-of-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225544","title":{"rendered":"The colours of orbit"},"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\/2015\/03\/the_colours_of_orbit\/15325538-1-eng-GB\/The_colours_of_orbit_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took these images from the International Space Station during her six-month mission. The Progress cargo ship and Soyuz crew spacecraft reflect sunlight as our star sets behind Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTraveling at 28 800 km\/h, astronauts can enjoy sunset and sunrise 16 times a day as they circle our planet in the Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha commented on the pictures: \u201cBefore the orbital night embraces our outpost in space this cold metallic light shines on the Space Station\u201d and \u201cHave I mentioned how I love it when the Space Station is cuddled by this orange embrace?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe colours appear as sunlight slices through the atmosphere. Light with shorter wavelengths is scattered by oxygen in the air first and appears blue. If sunlight hits the atmosphere at a low angle, it travels further through the air and more blue light is filtered out, creating the redder hue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA sunset happens quickly in orbit \u2013 these two images were taken just two minutes apart before the Sun disappeared, returning just 45 minutes later.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Samantha and her Futura mission via <a href=\"http:\/\/samanthacristoforetti.esa.int\">samanthacristoforetti.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\/2015\/03\/the_colours_of_orbit\/15325538-1-eng-GB\/The_colours_of_orbit_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took these images from the International Space Station during her six-month mission. The Progress cargo ship and Soyuz crew spacecraft reflect sunlight as our star sets behind Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTraveling at 28 800 km\/h, astronauts can enjoy sunset and sunrise 16 times a day as they circle our planet in the Space Station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSamantha commented on the pictures: \u201cBefore the orbital night embraces our outpost in space this cold metallic light shines on the Space Station\u201d and \u201cHave I mentioned how I love it when the Space Station is cuddled by this orange embrace?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe colours appear as sunlight slices through the atmosphere. Light with shorter wavelengths is scattered by oxygen in the air first and appears blue. If sunlight hits the atmosphere at a low angle, it travels further through the air and more blue light is filtered out, creating the redder hue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA sunset happens quickly in orbit \u2013 these two images were taken just two minutes apart before the Sun disappeared, returning just 45 minutes later.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Samantha and her Futura mission via <a href=\"http:\/\/samanthacristoforetti.esa.int\">samanthacristoforetti.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-225544","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\/225544","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=225544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225544\/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=225544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}