{"id":447742,"date":"2018-02-27T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f09503ef20a650015180aaabf34e3263"},"modified":"2018-02-27T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:43:00","slug":"snowy-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=447742","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEurope shivers as a cold front sweeps in from Siberia, Russia, bringing freezing temperatures to the continent. This chilly snap is being dubbed as the Beast from the East.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe frigid grip is casting its icy spell on the Alps, one of Europe\u2019s main ski destinations. Skiing lovers are coming to grips with temperatures of between \u201315\u00b0C and \u201325\u00b0C.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis image shows the Alpine region with its snow-capped tops. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took it from the International Space Station during his first mission in 2014 with the comment: \u201cClouds getting sucked into a valley on the Northern side of the European Alps.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nPhotography is a favourite pastime for astronauts when they are not running scientific research or maintaining the Station. From the European-built Cupola observatory, Alexander had a privileged vantage point 400 km above our planet.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuring that first stay in orbit he took thousands of images of Earth to observe our planet from a unique angle and share them with the public.\n<\/p>\n

\nAlexander is eager to return to the Station in June 2018, for his science-packed \u2018Horizons\u2019 second mission.\n<\/p>\n

\nMany of the experiments will take place in the Columbus laboratory. The first and only European module dedicated to long-term research in weightlessness recently achieved 10 years in orbit.\n<\/p>\n

\nFollow the countdown to his Horizons mission via alexandergerst.esa.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nEurope shivers as a cold front sweeps in from Siberia, Russia, bringing freezing temperatures to the continent. This chilly snap is being dubbed as the Beast from the East.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe frigid grip is casting its icy spell on the Alps, one of Europe’s main ski destinations. Skiing lovers are coming to grips with temperatures of between –15°C and –25°C.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis image shows the Alpine region with its snow-capped tops. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took it from the International Space Station during his first mission in 2014 with the comment: “Clouds getting sucked into a valley on the Northern side of the European Alps.”\n<\/p>\n

\nPhotography is a favourite pastime for astronauts when they are not running scientific research or maintaining the Station. From the European-built Cupola observatory, Alexander had a privileged vantage point 400 km above our planet.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuring that first stay in orbit he took thousands of images of Earth to observe our planet from a unique angle and share them with the public.\n<\/p>\n

\nAlexander is eager to return to the Station in June 2018, for his science-packed ‘Horizons’ second mission.\n<\/p>\n

\nMany of the experiments will take place in the Columbus laboratory. The first and only European module dedicated to long-term research in weightlessness recently achieved 10 years in orbit.\n<\/p>\n

\nFollow the countdown to his Horizons mission via 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-447742","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\/447742","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=447742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447743,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447742\/revisions\/447743"}],"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=447742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}