{"id":10611,"date":"2017-07-29T08:27:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10611"},"modified":"2017-07-29T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:27:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/29\/word-of-the-day-188\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Noctilucent clouds<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/aim.hamptonu.edu\/press\/spaceweathernews06-29-16.html?view=1&amp;day=10&amp;month=06&amp;year=2015\">NLCs<\/a>\u00a0[Noctilucent clouds] are, essentially, clouds of frosted meteor smoke. They form when wisps of summertime water vapor rise toward the top of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Water molecules stick to the microscopic debris of disintegrated meteoroids, assembling themselves into tiny crystals of ice that glow beautifully in sunlight at the edge of space. <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=28&amp;month=07&amp;year=2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a perfectly lovely picture from a satellite. I tried to find the original on the <a href=\"http:\/\/aim.hamptonu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>AIM<\/strong><\/em><\/a> site, but that site really needs to be reorganized; this is shamelessly stolen from <em><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em>, which claims it found it on <em><strong>AIM<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceweather.com\/images2017\/27jul17\/current_daisy_strip.jpg?resize=512%2C485\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"485\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: <strong>NASA\/HU\/VT\/CU LASP<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not all things Earthly look Earthly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noctilucent clouds: NLCs\u00a0[Noctilucent clouds] are, essentially, clouds of frosted meteor smoke. They form when wisps of summertime water vapor rise toward the top of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Water molecules stick to the microscopic debris of disintegrated meteoroids, assembling themselves into tiny crystals of ice that glow beautifully in sunlight at the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/29\/word-of-the-day-188\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10620,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions\/10620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}