{"id":3484,"date":"2025-07-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:43:53","slug":"nasa-astronaut-captures-rare-lightning-that-actually-shoots-toward-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/nasa-astronaut-captures-rare-lightning-that-actually-shoots-toward-space\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut captures rare lightning that actually shoots toward space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nasa-astronaut-captures-rare-lightning-that-actually-shoots_ffjj.640.jpg\">This sci-fi picture is real.<\/p>\n<p>As the International Space Station whizzed over Mexico and the United States \u2014 before floodwaters catastrophically rose in Central Texas \u2014 a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a><\/u> astronaut watched the storms from miles above. <\/p>\n<p>Nichole Ayers set up her camera to record a time-lapse movie in the orbiting laboratory&#8217;s cupola on Thursday. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sci-fi picture is real. As the International Space Station whizzed over Mexico and the United States \u2014 before floodwaters catastrophically rose in Central Texas \u2014 a NASA astronaut watched the storms from miles above. Nichole Ayers set up her camera to record a time-lapse movie in the orbiting laboratory&#8217;s cupola on Thursday. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}