{"id":217478,"date":"2013-09-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"19f7bea993f9b4ddaaf12b6babec1fb0"},"modified":"2013-09-06T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T08:00:00","slug":"uluruayers-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217478","title":{"rendered":"Uluru\/Ayers Rock"},"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\/09\/uluru_ayers_rock\/13008290-1-eng-GB\/Uluru_Ayers_Rock_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nUluru\/Ayers Rock in the Australian outback is featured in this image from the Kompsat-2 satellite.&nbsp;The rock formation is anInselberg\u2013 German for \u2018island mountain\u2019 \u2013 a prominent geological structure that rises from the surrounding plain.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHundreds of millions of years ago, this part of Australia was a shallow sea. Layers of sandstone settled on the ocean floor and were compressed. These hardened, horizontal layers were uplifted and tilted almost 90\u00ba upwards to their present position. The rock eroded slower than the surrounding softer deposits until the monolith stood high above an otherwise flat surface.&nbsp;From this perpendicular angle of the satellite acquisition, we can see those layers that were once horizontal and now appear to cut across the top of the formation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Korea Aerospace Research Institute\u2019s Kompsat-2 satellite acquired this image on 15 September 2011. ESA supports Kompsat as a Third Party Mission, meaning it uses its ground infrastructure and expertise to acquire, process and distribute data to users.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/09\/Earth_from_Space_Island_mountain\" >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\/09\/uluru_ayers_rock\/13008290-1-eng-GB\/Uluru_Ayers_Rock_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nUluru\/Ayers Rock in the Australian outback is featured in this image from the Kompsat-2 satellite.&nbsp;The rock formation is anInselberg\u2013 German for \u2018island mountain\u2019 \u2013 a prominent geological structure that rises from the surrounding plain.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHundreds of millions of years ago, this part of Australia was a shallow sea. Layers of sandstone settled on the ocean floor and were compressed. These hardened, horizontal layers were uplifted and tilted almost 90\u00ba upwards to their present position. The rock eroded slower than the surrounding softer deposits until the monolith stood high above an otherwise flat surface.&nbsp;From this perpendicular angle of the satellite acquisition, we can see those layers that were once horizontal and now appear to cut across the top of the formation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Korea Aerospace Research Institute\u2019s Kompsat-2 satellite acquired this image on 15 September 2011. ESA supports Kompsat as a Third Party Mission, meaning it uses its ground infrastructure and expertise to acquire, process and distribute data to users.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/09\/Earth_from_Space_Island_mountain\" 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-217478","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\/217478","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=217478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217478\/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=217478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}