{"id":109812,"date":"2020-07-12T00:47:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T07:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronaut-explains-what-its-like-to-photograph-earth-from-the-iss"},"modified":"2020-07-12T00:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T07:47:12","slug":"astronaut-explains-what-its-like-to-photograph-earth-from-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronaut-explains-what-its-like-to-photograph-earth-from-the-iss","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Explains What It\u2019s Like to Photograph Earth from the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronaut-explains-what-its-like-to-photograph-earth-from-the-iss2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the official Twitter account of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Space_Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">International Space Station<\/a> posted a short video interview in which NASA astronaut Doug Hurley explains what it\u2019s like to try and capture the beauty of Earth from 250 miles above.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a short video, but Col. Hurley tries to describe the feeling of looking down at the Earth from the edge of space, passing over recognizable landmarks and marveling at the beauty of it all\u2014then trying your best to convey that feeling in every photo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, it\u2019s just trying to convey to as many people as we can \u2026 just what we see with our eyes when we look out the window up here. And how different it is to view the Earth from space than it is to be standing on the ground somewhere,\u201d says Hurley. \u201c[We\u2019re] just trying to convey that it\u2019s just an emotional response that you have when you look down at the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the official Twitter account of the International Space Station posted a short video interview in which NASA astronaut Doug Hurley explains what it\u2019s like to try and capture the beauty of Earth from 250 miles above. It\u2019s a short video, but Col. Hurley tries to describe the feeling of looking down at the Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109812","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}