{"id":24859,"date":"2022-04-17T04:56:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T04:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24859"},"modified":"2022-04-17T04:56:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T04:56:42","slug":"shuttle-over-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24859","title":{"rendered":"Shuttle Over Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2204\/shuttleAtm_nasa_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What&#8217;s that approaching? Astronauts on board the International Space Station in 2010 first saw it far in the distance. Soon it enlarged to become a dark silhouette. As it came even closer, the silhouette appeared to be a spaceship. Finally, the object revealed itself to be the Space Shuttle Endeavour, and it soon docked as expected with the Earth-orbiting space station. Pictured here, Endeavour was imaged near Earth&#8217;s horizon as it approached, where several layers of the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere were visible. Directly behind the shuttle is the mesosphere, which appears blue. The atmospheric layer that appears white is the stratosphere, while the orange layer is Earth&#8217;s Troposphere. Together, these thin layers of air &#8212; collectively spanning less than 2 percent of Earth&#8217;s radius &#8212; sustain us all in many ways, including providing oxygen to breath and a barrier to dangerous radiations from space. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220417.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s that approaching? Astronauts on board the International Space Station in 2010 first saw it far in the distance. Soon it enlarged to become a dark silhouette. As it came <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24859\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-24859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24860,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24859\/revisions\/24860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}