{"id":145001,"date":"2022-08-28T00:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/astronaut-spies-intriguing-sight-of-bright-dot-on-earth-from-the-iss"},"modified":"2022-08-28T00:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T05:25:03","slug":"astronaut-spies-intriguing-sight-of-bright-dot-on-earth-from-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/astronaut-spies-intriguing-sight-of-bright-dot-on-earth-from-the-iss","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Spies \u201cIntriguing Sight\u201d Of Bright Dot On Earth From The ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronaut-spies-intriguing-sight-of-bright-dot-on-earth-from-the-iss2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orbiting around 420 kilometers (261 miles) above our heads, the astronauts of the Internation Space Station (ISS) get a view of Earth like no other. Sometimes, it\u2019s spectacular auroras, other times it\u2019s something more\u2026 curious.<\/p>\n<p>European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti \u2013 no stranger to having a bit of fun in space \u2013 took to Twitter yesterday to share what she called an \u201cintriguing sight\u201d, a bright dot apparently shining in the Negev desert in southern Israel. Related StoriesAfter 175 Years, Two False Conjectures, And The Birth Of Computing, This Theorem Finally Has A ProofExperiment To Find Elusive \u201cChameleon\u201d Fifth Force Suggests It Doesn\u2019t Actually ExistPerseverance Samples Hold Key To Understanding Water-Rich Martian Past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbiting around 420 kilometers (261 miles) above our heads, the astronauts of the Internation Space Station (ISS) get a view of Earth like no other. Sometimes, it\u2019s spectacular auroras, other times it\u2019s something more\u2026 curious. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti \u2013 no stranger to having a bit of fun in space \u2013 took [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145001","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=145001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}