{"id":195267,"date":"2013-04-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"cbb4045b6565a96bc40393075d76d7b2"},"modified":"2013-04-26T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T10:00:00","slug":"belize-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=195267","title":{"rendered":"Belize Barrier Reef"},"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\/belize_barrier_reef\/12641239-1-eng-GB\/Belize_Barrier_Reef_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Lighthouse Atoll in the Belize Barrier Reef is featured in this image acquired on 29 March 2011&nbsp;by Japan\u2019s ALOS satellite.&nbsp;In the upper-central part of the image, an underwater sinkhole known as the Great Blue Hole appears as a dark blue circle.&nbsp;Surrounded by the shallow waters of the coral reef, the Great Blue Hole measures over 300 m in diameter and about 123 m deep. Formed when the sea level was much lower, rain and chemical weathering eroded the exposed terrain. &nbsp;Water later filled the hole and covered the area when the sea level rose at the end of the ice age.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso visible in the image are two coral islands \u2013 green with vegetation \u2013 called cayes. The larger to the west is Long Caye, and the smaller Half Moon Caye is to the east.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/04\/Earth_from_Space_Great_Blue_Hole\" >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\/belize_barrier_reef\/12641239-1-eng-GB\/Belize_Barrier_Reef_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Lighthouse Atoll in the Belize Barrier Reef is featured in this image acquired on 29 March 2011&nbsp;by Japan\u2019s ALOS satellite.&nbsp;In the upper-central part of the image, an underwater sinkhole known as the Great Blue Hole appears as a dark blue circle.&nbsp;Surrounded by the shallow waters of the coral reef, the Great Blue Hole measures over 300 m in diameter and about 123 m deep. Formed when the sea level was much lower, rain and chemical weathering eroded the exposed terrain. &nbsp;Water later filled the hole and covered the area when the sea level rose at the end of the ice age.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso visible in the image are two coral islands \u2013 green with vegetation \u2013 called cayes. The larger to the west is Long Caye, and the smaller Half Moon Caye is to the east.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/04\/Earth_from_Space_Great_Blue_Hole\" 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-195267","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\/195267","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=195267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195267\/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=195267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}