{"id":766,"date":"2006-12-19T07:09:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2006-12-19T07:09:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T15:09:22","slug":"auroras-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/auroras-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Auroras from Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some especially intense auroras resulting from solar flares associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=750\">sunspot 930<\/a> were visible from outer space via an Air Force satellite. Here&#8217;s the story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AURORAS FROM SPACE: How bright were the auroras of Dec. 14th? As bright as city lights and easily seen from space. A US Air Force DMSP satellite took this picture from orbit 830 km above the United States:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0612\/space-aurora.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"left\" \/>The bright arc stretching from Montana to Maine is the aurora Borealis. In many places it completely overwhelms the city lights below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DMSP satellite has the ability to detect auroral light at night,&#8221; says Paul McCrone of the Air Force Weather Agency at Offutt AFB in Nebraska. &#8220;These images are mosaics of various DMSP overflights on Dec. 12-13, Dec. 13-14, and Dec 14-15. The Dec. 14th image is quite striking.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some especially intense auroras resulting from solar flares associated with sunspot 930 were visible from outer space via an Air Force satellite. Here&#8217;s the story from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rocket-science","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}