{"id":217915,"date":"2013-10-11T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"c7a1f664ed4a721c792c17cc9fe067f8"},"modified":"2013-10-11T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T08:04:00","slug":"dune-of-pyla-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217915","title":{"rendered":"Dune of Pyla, France"},"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\/10\/dune_of_pyla_france\/13062576-1-eng-GB\/Dune_of_Pyla_France_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Arcachon Bay in France\u2019s southwest Aquitaine region is pictured in this image acquired on on 8 September 2009 by&nbsp;Japan\u2019s ALOS observation satellite.&nbsp;At the centre of the image, we can see the large Dune of Pyla as an elongated light-brown rectangle. This large, sandy dune is about 2.7 km long, 500 m wide and about 110 m tall.&nbsp;In the upper right portion of the image is Arcachon Bay, home to oyster beds and farms. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nALOS was supported as a Third Party Mission, which means that ESA used its multi-mission ground systems to acquire, process, distribute and archive data from the satellite to its user community.&nbsp;In April 2011 the satellite abruptly lost power while mapping Japan\u2019s tsunami-hit coastline.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/10\/Earth_from_Space_Pushing_Pyla\" >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\/10\/dune_of_pyla_france\/13062576-1-eng-GB\/Dune_of_Pyla_France_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Arcachon Bay in France\u2019s southwest Aquitaine region is pictured in this image acquired on on 8 September 2009 by&nbsp;Japan\u2019s ALOS observation satellite.&nbsp;At the centre of the image, we can see the large Dune of Pyla as an elongated light-brown rectangle. This large, sandy dune is about 2.7 km long, 500 m wide and about 110 m tall.&nbsp;In the upper right portion of the image is Arcachon Bay, home to oyster beds and farms. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nALOS was supported as a Third Party Mission, which means that ESA used its multi-mission ground systems to acquire, process, distribute and archive data from the satellite to its user community.&nbsp;In April 2011 the satellite abruptly lost power while mapping Japan\u2019s tsunami-hit coastline.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/10\/Earth_from_Space_Pushing_Pyla\" 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-217915","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\/217915","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=217915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217915\/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=217915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}