{"id":217470,"date":"2013-08-30T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"fdf49e667d98f80b756c1acefd1e03be"},"modified":"2013-08-30T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T07:05:00","slug":"anatolias-central-plateau-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217470","title":{"rendered":"Anatolia&#8217;s central plateau, Turkey"},"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\/08\/anatolia_s_central_plateau_turkey\/12995718-1-eng-GB\/Anatolia_s_central_plateau_Turkey_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis ALOS image was acquired over Anatolia\u2019s dry, central plateau in Turkey.&nbsp;On the left side we can see&nbsp;the whole of Lake Tersakan, with part of Lake Tuz in the upper right corner.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLake Tuz is Turkey\u2019s second largest lake, as well as one of the largest saline lakes in the world.&nbsp;During the summer months, however, the lakewater recedes to expose a thick layer of salt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe bright white surface during these dry summer months has been used by Earth-observing satellites to calibrate their sensors for the colour white \u2013 much like how you would adjust a camera\u2019s white balance setting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJapan\u2019s Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) captured this image on 21 October 2010 with its Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type-2 instrument.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/08\/Earth_from_Space_Salty_Turkey%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\/08\/anatolia_s_central_plateau_turkey\/12995718-1-eng-GB\/Anatolia_s_central_plateau_Turkey_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis ALOS image was acquired over Anatolia\u2019s dry, central plateau in Turkey.&nbsp;On the left side we can see&nbsp;the whole of Lake Tersakan, with part of Lake Tuz in the upper right corner.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLake Tuz is Turkey\u2019s second largest lake, as well as one of the largest saline lakes in the world.&nbsp;During the summer months, however, the lakewater recedes to expose a thick layer of salt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe bright white surface during these dry summer months has been used by Earth-observing satellites to calibrate their sensors for the colour white \u2013 much like how you would adjust a camera\u2019s white balance setting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJapan\u2019s Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) captured this image on 21 October 2010 with its Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer type-2 instrument.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/08\/Earth_from_Space_Salty_Turkey%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-217470","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\/217470","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=217470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217470\/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=217470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}