{"id":179348,"date":"2013-02-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"ad9c204eda280dffdaeb2df44aefd6b4"},"modified":"2013-02-08T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T11:00:00","slug":"lake-powell-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=179348","title":{"rendered":"Lake Powell, United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/02\/lake_powell_united_states\/12512288-1-eng-GB\/Lake_Powell_United_States_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis Landsat image from 19 July 2011 shows Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River in the southwestern United States.&nbsp;Straddling the border of the states Utah (to the north) and Arizona (to the south), it is the second largest artificial lake in the country.&nbsp;The area to the north of Lake Powell is known as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and covers over 760&nbsp;000 hectares.&nbsp;Appearing green in this false-colour image, the Kaiparowits Plateau makes up a significant portion of the Monument, with the Fiftymile mountain (dark green) separating it from the Escalante Canyons.&nbsp;Another feature of the Monument is the Grand Staircase \u2013 a sequence of sedimentary rock layers \u2013 part of which is visible in the lower-left corner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/02\/Earth_from_Space_Canyon_country%20\" >Earth from Space video programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/02\/lake_powell_united_states\/12512288-1-eng-GB\/Lake_Powell_United_States_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis Landsat image from 19 July 2011 shows Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River in the southwestern United States.&nbsp;Straddling the border of the states Utah (to the north) and Arizona (to the south), it is the second largest artificial lake in the country.&nbsp;The area to the north of Lake Powell is known as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and covers over 760&nbsp;000 hectares.&nbsp;Appearing green in this false-colour image, the Kaiparowits Plateau makes up a significant portion of the Monument, with the Fiftymile mountain (dark green) separating it from the Escalante Canyons.&nbsp;Another feature of the Monument is the Grand Staircase \u2013 a sequence of sedimentary rock layers \u2013 part of which is visible in the lower-left corner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/02\/Earth_from_Space_Canyon_country%20\" target=\"_blank\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}