{"id":84554,"date":"2018-11-07T01:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/nasa-icon-spacecraft-launches-wednesday-to-explore-ionosphere"},"modified":"2018-11-07T01:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:42:48","slug":"nasa-icon-spacecraft-launches-wednesday-to-explore-ionosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/nasa-icon-spacecraft-launches-wednesday-to-explore-ionosphere","title":{"rendered":"NASA ICON spacecraft launches Wednesday to explore ionosphere"},"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\/b94PaWIeG9Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, November 7, NASA will launch its Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft to study the ionosphere. This boundary lies between space and Earth, being home to a \u201csea\u201d of charged electrons and ions; it reacts to both lower atmosphere weather and solar energy, the result being space weather. NASA\u2019s ICON will study this, offering unprecedented scientific data.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/nasa-icon-spacecraft-launches-wednesday-to-explore-ionosphere-06552754\/\">https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/nasa-icon-spacecraft-launches-wedn...-06552754\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, November 7, NASA will launch its Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft to study the ionosphere. This boundary lies between space and Earth, being home to a \u201csea\u201d of charged electrons and ions; it reacts to both lower atmosphere weather and solar energy, the result being space weather. NASA\u2019s ICON will study this, offering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554","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=84554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}