{"id":126,"date":"2015-04-24T19:40:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T19:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.245.251.220\/?p=126"},"modified":"2023-12-26T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T22:00:41","slug":"infographic-why-is-green-the-most-common-color-for-an-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"INFOGRAPHIC: Why is green the most common color for an aurora?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jessica Clayton<\/p>\n<p>You probably already heard that aurora were spectacular on St. Patrick\u2019s Day, 2015.\u00a0The green glow of the aurora added to the celebration, but its color was not\u00a0surprising. That\u2019s because green is the most common color for an aurora. Do you\u00a0know why? Check out this infographic, fourth in a five part series about color, to\u00a0learn why green dominates the aurora.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/aurora_infographic4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1025\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/aurora_infographic4.png\" alt=\"aurora_infographic4\" width=\"1200\" height=\"4145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also available at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/magic.piktochart.com\/output\/4290880-aurora_infographic4\">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>Green is the most common color for an aurora. Do you know why? Check out this infographic to learn why green dominates the aurora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"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-126","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\/126","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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.aurorasaurus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}