{"id":107355,"date":"2020-05-20T18:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T01:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-secrets-behind-earths-multi-colored-glow"},"modified":"2020-05-20T18:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T01:24:39","slug":"the-secrets-behind-earths-multi-colored-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-secrets-behind-earths-multi-colored-glow","title":{"rendered":"The Secrets behind Earth\u2019s Multi-colored Glow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/753127501758235\/\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"false\" data-autoplay=\"false\"><\/div>\n<p>Airglow is the constant, faint glow of Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere created by the interaction between sunlight and particles in this region. The phenomenon is similar to auroras, but where auroras are driven by high-energy particles originating from the solar wind, airglow is energized by ordinary, day-to-day solar radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Studying airglow gives scientists clues about the upper atmosphere\u2019s temperature, density, and composition, and helps us trace how particles move through the region itself. Two NASA missions take advantage of our planet\u2019s natural glow to study the upper atmosphere: ICON focuses on how charged and neutral gases in the upper atmosphere interact, while GOLD observes what\u2019s driving change \u2014 the Sun, Earth\u2019s magnetic field or the lower atmosphere \u2014 in the region.<\/p>\n<p>By watching and imaging airglow, the two missions enable scientists to tease out how Earth\u2019s weather and space intersect, dictating the region\u2019s complex behavior. <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2RJax4x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2RJax4x\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2RJax4x<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airglow is the constant, faint glow of Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere created by the interaction between sunlight and particles in this region. The phenomenon is similar to auroras, but where auroras are driven by high-energy particles originating from the solar wind, airglow is energized by ordinary, day-to-day solar radiation. Studying airglow gives scientists clues about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}