{"id":543658,"date":"2018-11-07T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=898aa1c96f39ccd9a99866f12ff1ec97"},"modified":"2018-11-07T08:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:40:01","slug":"image-a-rare-optical-phenomenon-spotted-from-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=543658","title":{"rendered":"Image: A rare optical phenomenon spotted from orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite humankind&#8217;s scientific prowess there are still many phenomena that defy explanation or a common agreement on why something happens. A &#8216;glory&#8217; is a rare optical phenomenon that is mostly seen by pilots and mountain climbers looking down at mists or clouds. Forming a miniature circular rainbow, glories are seen when the Sun shines from behind and interacts with water droplets to refract light back to the observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite humankind&#8217;s scientific prowess there are still many phenomena that defy explanation or a common agreement on why something happens. A &#8216;glory&#8217; is a rare optical phenomenon that is mostly seen by pilots and mountain climbers looking down at mists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543658","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543659,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543658\/revisions\/543659"}],"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=543658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}