{"id":18202,"date":"2015-10-07T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/a-nasa-experiment-is-going-to-light-up-the-sky-with-beautifully-colored-clouds-tonight"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:33:34","slug":"a-nasa-experiment-is-going-to-light-up-the-sky-with-beautifully-colored-clouds-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/a-nasa-experiment-is-going-to-light-up-the-sky-with-beautifully-colored-clouds-tonight","title":{"rendered":"A NASA Experiment Is Going to Light Up the Sky With Beautifully Colored Clouds Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nasa-experiment-is-going-to-light-up-the-sky-with-beautifully-colored-clouds-tonight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re on the east coast tonight, keep an eye on the sky between 7pm and 9pm: NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/wednesday-rocket-launch-to-be-visible-along-mid-atlantic\" target=\"_blank\">is launching a test<\/a> of some new tech that will include releasing colorful vapor tracers 130 miles above the Earth. It sounds like it\u2019s going to be beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>The vapors will be ejected from a sounding rocket launched from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. NASA explains that it has actually been injecting various vapor tracers into the atmosphere <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/sounding-rockets\/tracers\/metals.html\" target=\"_blank\">since the 1950s <\/a>\u2014these trails help scientists understand \u201cthe naturally occurring flows of ionized and neutral particles\u201d in the upper atmosphere by injecting color tracers and tracking the flow across the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, NASA says it\u2019s ejecting four different payloads of a mix of barium and strontium, creating \u201ca cloud with a mixture of blue-green and red color.\u201d Here\u2019s an example of a barium release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/sounding-rockets\/tracers\/metals.html\" target=\"_blank\">provided by NASA<\/a>; on the upper left you can see the barium\u2019s \u201cionized component, which has become elongated along the Earth\u2019s magnetic field lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/a-nasa-experiment-is-going-to-light-up-the-sky-with-bea-1735168250\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re on the east coast tonight, keep an eye on the sky between 7pm and 9pm: NASA is launching a test of some new tech that will include releasing colorful vapor tracers 130 miles above the Earth. It sounds like it\u2019s going to be beautiful. The vapors will be ejected from a sounding rocket [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63986,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions\/63986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}