{"id":1328,"date":"2017-04-11T01:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2017-04-11T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T08:21:25","slug":"flight-to-the-light-mission-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/flight-to-the-light-mission-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight to the Light Mission Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first\u00a0tour to see the Aurora Australis was a success with approximately 6 hours of aurora viewing time.<\/p>\n<p>Project name &#8220;Flight to the Light&#8221; flew on a Boeing jet 767 to 66 degrees south carrying\u00a0130 passengers.<br \/>\nI feel grateful\u00a0to be able to be on this first flight to the aurora band. It was quite special.<\/p>\n<p>There were huge international response and the flight was featured across mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>Photo above was used\u00a0in the Otago Daily Times newspaper,\u00a0TVNZ1, TV3, Ameba news and a few other websites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/viewer?mid=1uKcx_rZgTUOSWdpjzbkBkFpyw90&amp;ll=-54.594504064094686%2C178.1817789277344&amp;z=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1335 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-06-at-3.45.54-PM-239x300.png\" alt=\"66 south\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-06-at-3.45.54-PM-239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-06-at-3.45.54-PM.png 691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a>The flight path created by the f<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">irst officer of the flight Matthew Harrington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Interactive map link:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/viewer?mid=1uKcx_rZgTUOSWdpjzbkBkFpyw90&amp;ll=-54.594504064094686%2C178.1817789277344&amp;z=4\">Flight to the Light&#8221; google maps<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For further information<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=134105&amp;PHPSESSID=gbi15bpmh49vqfhk7vthkc70l7\">http:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=134105&amp;PHPSESSID=gbi15bpmh49vqfhk7vthkc70l7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1343\" src=\"http:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceweather-screenshot-830x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceweather-screenshot-830x1024.jpg 830w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceweather-screenshot-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceweather-screenshot-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/spaceweather-screenshot.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first\u00a0tour to see the Aurora Australis was a success with approximately 6 hours of aurora&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,22,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aurora-australis","category-location-hunts","category-media","category-night-sky","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceoflight.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}