{"id":135405,"date":"2022-02-09T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nasas-crew-2-astronauts-flew-over-an-impressive-aurora-before-splashing-down"},"modified":"2022-02-09T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:43:15","slug":"nasas-crew-2-astronauts-flew-over-an-impressive-aurora-before-splashing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nasas-crew-2-astronauts-flew-over-an-impressive-aurora-before-splashing-down","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Crew-2 Astronauts Flew Over an Impressive Aurora Before Splashing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLdl-wM7kGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s the only one of its kind we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>An international group of astronomers discovered a previously unknown mechanism behind the massive aurorae on the poles of Saturn, <a href=\"https:\/\/le.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/february\/saturn-aurorae\">a press statement<\/a> reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that, unlike any other planet observed to date, Saturn generates aurorae by swirling winds within its own atmosphere, and not only from the magnetosphere surrounding the planet \u2014 as is the <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/nasas-crew-2-astronauts-flew-over-an-impressive-aurora-before-splashing-down\">case on Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new discovery shows that Saturn has a truly unique aurora, and it is the only one known to truly live up to the name Aurora Borealis\\.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An international group of researchers discovered a previously unknown mechanism behind the enormous aurorae on the poles of Saturn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nasas-crew-2-astronauts-flew-over-an-impressive-aurora-before-splashing-down\">Continue reading \u201cNASA\u2019s Crew-2 Astronauts Flew Over an Impressive Aurora Before Splashing Down\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it\u2019s the only one of its kind we\u2019ve seen. An international group of astronomers discovered a previously unknown mechanism behind the massive aurorae on the poles of Saturn, a press statement reveals. The researchers found that, unlike any other planet observed to date, Saturn generates aurorae by swirling winds within its own atmosphere, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135405","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}