{"id":108728,"date":"2020-06-15T20:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/green-glow-detected-on-the-red-planet"},"modified":"2020-06-15T20:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T03:09:58","slug":"green-glow-detected-on-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/green-glow-detected-on-the-red-planet","title":{"rendered":"Green glow detected on the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/green-glow-detected-on-the-red-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A similar glow is sometimes seen by astronauts on the space station when they look to the Earth\u2019s limb.<\/p>\n<p>The glow comes from oxygen atoms when they\u2019re excited by sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon has long been predicted to occur on other planets, but the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) \u2014 a joint European-Russian satellite at Mars \u2014 is the first to make the observation beyond Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A similar glow is sometimes seen by astronauts on the space station when they look to the Earth\u2019s limb. The glow comes from oxygen atoms when they\u2019re excited by sunlight. The phenomenon has long been predicted to occur on other planets, but the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) \u2014 a joint European-Russian satellite at Mars \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108728","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}