{"id":500234,"date":"2018-07-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f3789fff5234bbfd5cf3fcc51a9716eb"},"modified":"2018-07-01T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T10:00:00","slug":"horizons-mission-time-lapse-lightning-flashes-and-aurora-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=500234","title":{"rendered":"Horizons mission time-lapse \u2013 Lightning flashes and 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\/videos\/2018\/06\/horizons_mission_time-lapse_lightning_flashes_and_aurora\/17574440-1-eng-GB\/Horizons_mission_time-lapse_Lightning_flashes_and_aurora_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"101\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLights, camera, action! The lightning captured in this time-lapse taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from aboard the International Space Station is reminiscent of camera flashes in the night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTaking a tour over cities and oceans as the Space Station orbits planet Earth, the clip ends with a view of the aurora. It comprises 1,675 images taken at a rate of two per second.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlexander often sets cameras to automatically take pictures at regular intervals while he carries out scientific experiments and work on board the Space Station. Horizons is his second mission and he will fulfil the role of Station commander in early October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the Horizons mission at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/alexander-gerst\/\">http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/alexander-gerst\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Alexander on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro_Alex\">@Astro_Alex<\/a> and on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/astro_alex_esa\/\">@astro_alex_esa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lights, camera, action! The lightning captured in this time-lapse taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from aboard the International Space Station is reminiscent of camera flashes in the night.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a tour over cities and oceans as the&#8230;<\/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-500234","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\/500234","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=500234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500235,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500234\/revisions\/500235"}],"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=500234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}