{"id":283247,"date":"2017-03-06T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4b33eae79d92b4cd1cf236b9d844abb8"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:48:00","slug":"watch-tracking-lightning-strikes-from-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=283247","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Tracking Lightning Strikes, From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/03\/06\/glm_sqrt_scaled_full_disk_lightning_2017_02_14_wide-0948465bb4eefb9545dc0638a7c234c83790209b.jpg?s=600' alt='An image of Western Hemisphere lightning storms, captured Feb. 14 over the course of one hour. Brighter colors indicate more lightning energy was recorded (the key is in kilowatt-hours of total optical emissions from lightning.) The most powerful storm system is located over the Gulf Coast of Texas.'\/><\/p>\n<p>NOAA&#8217;s new weather satellite is carrying the first lightning detector ever parked in orbit over Earth. It has sent back its first images of real-time lightning storms in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: MATLAB\/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=518776626' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA&#8217;s new weather satellite is carrying the first lightning detector ever parked in orbit over Earth. It has sent back its first images of real-time lightning storms in the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283247","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\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283248,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283247\/revisions\/283248"}],"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=283247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}