{"id":193780,"date":"2013-04-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"0ab7d1696072187c825d516c51900e7d"},"modified":"2013-04-19T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T10:00:00","slug":"democratic-republic-of-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=193780","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Republic of Congo"},"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\/04\/democratic_republic_of_congo\/12630823-1-eng-GB\/Democratic_Republic_of_Congo_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAn area in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo is pictured in this image taken on 26 June 2011&nbsp;by the French SPOT-4 satellite.&nbsp;Most of the lighter green areas are deforested, while the darker green are areas of dense \u2013 and possibly natural \u2013 vegetation.&nbsp;The lines cutting through the image are roads, many with structures built along them. Clusters of purple dots are larger settlements.&nbsp;A river snakes through the upper part of the image and below it there appears to be a square in light green. Judging by the precision of the outline, we can deduce that this is a patch of land that was either intentionally spared from deforestation or has been reforested.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/04\/Earth_from_Space_Equateur\" >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\/04\/democratic_republic_of_congo\/12630823-1-eng-GB\/Democratic_Republic_of_Congo_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAn area in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo is pictured in this image taken on 26 June 2011&nbsp;by the French SPOT-4 satellite.&nbsp;Most of the lighter green areas are deforested, while the darker green are areas of dense \u2013 and possibly natural \u2013 vegetation.&nbsp;The lines cutting through the image are roads, many with structures built along them. Clusters of purple dots are larger settlements.&nbsp;A river snakes through the upper part of the image and below it there appears to be a square in light green. Judging by the precision of the outline, we can deduce that this is a patch of land that was either intentionally spared from deforestation or has been reforested.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/04\/Earth_from_Space_Equateur\" 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-193780","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\/193780","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=193780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193862,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193780\/revisions\/193862"}],"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=193780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}