{"id":77027,"date":"2018-03-19T14:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-clever-animation-that-explains-the-heights-and-purposes-of-each-layer-of-the-earths-atmosphere"},"modified":"2018-03-19T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T21:03:06","slug":"a-clever-animation-that-explains-the-heights-and-purposes-of-each-layer-of-the-earths-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/a-clever-animation-that-explains-the-heights-and-purposes-of-each-layer-of-the-earths-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"A Clever Animation That Explains the Heights and Purposes of Each Layer of the Earth\u2019s Atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-clever-animation-that-explains-the-heights-and-purposes-of-each-layer-of-the-earths-atmosphere.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While many of us have a nebulous familiarity with the universe, a very clever animation by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/royal-observatory\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Royal Observatory Greenwich<\/a> explains the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/259658170\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">height and purposes of the different layers<\/a> of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere before it is officially considered to be \u201cspace\u201d. These layers include the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troposphere\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">troposphere<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stratosphere\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">stratosphere<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mesosphere\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">mesosphere<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermosphere\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">thermosphere<\/a>, which continues on and on eventually becomes the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exosphere\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">exosphere<\/a> and then on to space as we know it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you ever wondered how far away space is; how far are the different things you see above your head? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they ascend up through the different layers of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere to reveal what we would see at different heights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Royal Observatory also put together an equally clever animation that describes <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/259687037\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">how the solar system was formed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/where-does-space-begin\/\">https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/where-does-space-begin\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many of us have a nebulous familiarity with the universe, a very clever animation by the Royal Observatory Greenwich explains the height and purposes of the different layers of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere before it is officially considered to be \u201cspace\u201d. These layers include the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line. The thermosphere, which [\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-77027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77027","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=77027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}