{"id":424641,"date":"2010-03-13T09:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12721"},"modified":"2010-03-13T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:28:12","slug":"space-tweeting-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/424641","title":{"rendered":"Space tweeting | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, International Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/02\/22\/pic-of-the-shuttle-reentry-from-space\/\">took an amazing picture of Endeavour re-entering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He has been busily snapping away at the Earth and posting the pictures on his Twitter feed. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Astro_Soichi\">You really should be following him<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Recently, he unknowingly did me a big favor by posting <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/170ftn\">this incredible shot of Egypt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/170ftn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/03\/astro_soichi_egypt.jpg\" alt=\"astro_soichi_egypt\" title=\"astro_soichi_egypt\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12722\"\/><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Yes, those are actual pyramids in the picture! Amazing. And by doing that, he made it very easy for me to answer the question I still get about once a month from people: &#8220;Is the Great Wall of China the only man-made object you can see from space?&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I already knew the answer is no; you can see cities easily, as well as agricultural formations, big roads, and more. But this one shot makes it very plain and simple: yes, humans have made quite an impact on the planet, and you can easily see it from space.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2LtO7GUjhA-IdY2aBEIU_v8Hsqk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2LtO7GUjhA-IdY2aBEIU_v8Hsqk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2LtO7GUjhA-IdY2aBEIU_v8Hsqk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2LtO7GUjhA-IdY2aBEIU_v8Hsqk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/_pgRGWaAKg8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/7yOKO8XQ60o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, International Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi took an amazing picture of Endeavour re-entering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. He has been busily snapping away at the Earth and posting the pictures on his Twitter feed. You really should be following him! Recently, he unknowingly did me a big favor by posting this incredible shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}