{"id":24943,"date":"2022-05-31T05:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24943"},"modified":"2022-05-31T05:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T05:56:36","slug":"rocket-transits-rippling-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24943","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Transits Rippling Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2205\/FalconSun_Cain_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>The launch of a rocket at sunrise can result in unusual but intriguing images that feature both the rocket and the Sun. Such was the case last month when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center carrying 53 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. In the featured launch picture, the rocket&#8217;s exhaust plume glows beyond its projection onto the distant Sun, the rocket itself appears oddly jagged, and the Sun&#8217;s lower edge shows peculiar drip-like ripples. The physical cause of all of these effects is pockets of relatively hot or rarefied air deflecting sunlight less strongly than pockets relatively cool or compressed air: refraction. Unaware of the Earthly show, active sunspot region 3014 &#8212; on the upper left &#8212; slowly crosses the Sun. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap220531.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of a rocket at sunrise can result in unusual but intriguing images that feature both the rocket and the Sun. Such was the case last month when a <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=24943\" 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-24943","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\/24943","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=24943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24944,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24943\/revisions\/24944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}