{"id":122,"date":"2015-04-22T19:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.245.251.220\/?p=122"},"modified":"2023-12-26T22:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T22:00:55","slug":"infographic-what-determines-the-altitude-of-an-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"INFOGRAPHIC: What determines the altitude of an aurora?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jessica Clayton<\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder how high an aurora occurs? Yeah, it is up there\u2026 like the clouds\u2026 or\u00a0airplanes. But do you have any idea how high? Take a look at this infographic, third\u00a0in a five part series, and find out what determines the altitude of an aurora. (Hint: It\u00a0is surprisingly high!)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/aurora_infographic3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/aurora_infographic3.png\" alt=\"aurora_infographic3\" width=\"1200\" height=\"2772\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also available at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/magic.piktochart.com\/output\/4331066-aurora_infographic3\">Piktochart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Jessica contributed to the Aurorasaurus education team and has a Ph.D. in physics. She lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where she attempts to balance life as a mom and physicist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how high an aurora occurs? Yeah, it is up there\u2026 like the clouds\u2026 or airplanes. But do you have any idea how high? Take a look at this infographic, third in a five part series, and find out what determines the altitude of an aurora. (Hint: It is surprisingly high!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}