{"id":17296,"date":"2017-02-10T06:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17296"},"modified":"2017-02-10T06:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:12:29","slug":"astronaut-tweets-nighttime-image-of-colorado-front-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/astronaut-tweets-nighttime-image-of-colorado-front-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut tweets nighttime image of Colorado Front Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only a select few have the privilege of viewing our planet from space so those of us more grounded live vicariously through the images they send back. Astronaut Shane Kimbrough gave us a look at a lit up Front Range from Colorado Springs to Cheyenne in an image he tweeted out.<\/p>\n<p>All the major population centers are clearly visible.\u00a0 The nighttime lights of Colorado Springs, Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Cheyenne and even Fort Morgan out on the plains are all visible.\u00a0 The Denver \/ Boulder office of the National Weather Service tweeted out a copy of the image labeled with the cities to provide some context.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good morning USA!  Cheyenne Wyoming and north central Colorado &#8211; Fort Collins, Greeley, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CitiesFromSpace?src=hash\">#CitiesFromSpace<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Z3lS0Wa6Z\">pic.twitter.com\/4Z3lS0Wa6Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astro_kimbrough\/status\/829684766039478272\">February 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazing view of the Urban Corridor from Astronaut Shane Kimbrough as the International Space Station passed overhead! City names overlayed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fdb2Qh5uqm\">pic.twitter.com\/Fdb2Qh5uqm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSBoulder\/status\/829850706995662849\">February 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a select few have the privilege of viewing our planet from space so those of us more grounded live vicariously through the images they send back. Astronaut Shane Kimbrough gave us a look at a lit up Front Range from Colorado Springs to Cheyenne in an image he tweeted out. All the major population &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/astronaut-tweets-nighttime-image-of-colorado-front-range\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Astronaut tweets nighttime image of Colorado Front Range<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[781,142,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17297,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions\/17297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}