{"id":239721,"date":"2016-02-26T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=69682ff309f358ee3fad566961528c4a"},"modified":"2016-02-26T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T13:48:00","slug":"thick-green-fog-of-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239721","title":{"rendered":"Thick green fog of 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\/2016\/02\/thick_green_fog_of_aurora\/15829974-1-eng-GB\/Thick_green_fog_of_aurora_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAurora seen from the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Tim Peake.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTim commented on the picture: &quot;The ISS just passed straight through a thick green fog of aurora&#8230; eerie but very beautiful.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTim&#8217;s six-month mission to the International Space Station is named Principia, after Isaac Newton\u2019s ground-breaking Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which describes the principal laws of motion and gravity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is performing more than 30 scientific experiments for ESA and taking part in numerous others from ESA\u2019s international partners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA and the UK Space Agency have partnered to develop many exciting educational activities around the Principia mission, aimed at sparking the interest of young children in science and space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about the Principia mission: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Principia\" title=\"Principia mission\" >http:\/\/www.esa.int\/principia<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore photos from Tim on his flickr photostream: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timpeake\" title=\"Tim on flickr\" >https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timpeake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/02\/thick_green_fog_of_aurora\/15829974-1-eng-GB\/Thick_green_fog_of_aurora_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nAurora seen from the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Tim Peake.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTim commented on the picture: &#8220;The ISS just passed straight through a thick green fog of aurora&#8230; eerie but very beautiful.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTim&#8217;s six-month mission to the International Space Station is named Principia, after Isaac Newton&rsquo;s ground-breaking Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which describes the principal laws of motion and gravity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is performing more than 30 scientific experiments for ESA and taking part in numerous others from ESA&rsquo;s international partners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA and the UK Space Agency have partnered to develop many exciting educational activities around the Principia mission, aimed at sparking the interest of young children in science and space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about the Principia mission: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Principia\" title=\"Principia mission\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/principia<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore photos from Tim on his flickr photostream: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timpeake\" title=\"Tim on flickr\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timpeake<\/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-239721","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\/239721","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=239721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239722,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239721\/revisions\/239722"}],"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=239721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}