{"id":9522,"date":"2014-12-17T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=373"},"modified":"2014-12-17T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:32:00","slug":"today-in-space-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=9522","title":{"rendered":"Today in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/thumbnails\/image\/dc_balt.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>City lights shine brighter during the holidays when compared with the rest of the year, as shown using a new analysis of daily data from the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite. Dark green pixels are areas where lights are 50 percent brighter, or more, during December.<br \/>\nThis new analysis of holiday lights uses an advanced algorithm, developed at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, that filters out moonlight, clouds and airborne particles in order to isolate city lights on a daily basis. The data from this algorithm provide high-quality satellite information on light output across the globe, allowing scientists to track when \u2013 and how brightly \u2013 people illuminate the night. A daily global dynamic dataset of nighttime lights is a new way for researchers to understand the broad societal forces impacting energy decisions and to look at how people use cities, from an energy perspective.<br \/>\n> Full Story: NOAA\/NASA Satellite Sees Holiday Lights Brighten Cities<br \/>\nImage Credit: NASA&#8217;s Earth Observatory\/Jesse Allen via NASA http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/city-lights-shine-brighter-during-the-holidays<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City lights shine brighter during the holidays when compared with the rest of the year, as shown using a new analysis of daily data from the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite. Dark green pixels are areas where lights are 50 percent brighter, or more, during December. This new analysis of holiday lights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13,39],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}