{"id":217949,"date":"2013-10-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"bada7ddc503c4e0bfa4ec9661e6e77e5"},"modified":"2013-10-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:00:00","slug":"the-amazon-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217949","title":{"rendered":"The Amazon River"},"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\/the_amazon_river\/13087641-1-eng-GB\/The_Amazon_River_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis Kompsat-2 image,&nbsp;acquired on 6 July 2012,&nbsp;shows the Amazon River in the heart of northern Brazil\u2019s rainforest.&nbsp;The false colour makes land vegetation appear pink, while water appears green and dark blue. In the upper-right corner, we can see some sparse clouds.&nbsp;The shades of pink vary \u2013 the bolder colour representing thick vegetation with lighter pink showing where trees were possibly cut down. In fact, in the upper-left portion of the image, there\u2019s a clear line between the two shades, showing where vegetation was cut. The white dots show man-made structures.&nbsp;With their unique view from space, Earth observation satellites have been instrumental in highlighting the vulnerability of the rainforests by documenting the scale of deforestation.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured&nbsp;&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/10\/Earth_from_Space_Amazon\" >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\/the_amazon_river\/13087641-1-eng-GB\/The_Amazon_River_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis Kompsat-2 image,&nbsp;acquired on 6 July 2012,&nbsp;shows the Amazon River in the heart of northern Brazil\u2019s rainforest.&nbsp;The false colour makes land vegetation appear pink, while water appears green and dark blue. In the upper-right corner, we can see some sparse clouds.&nbsp;The shades of pink vary \u2013 the bolder colour representing thick vegetation with lighter pink showing where trees were possibly cut down. In fact, in the upper-left portion of the image, there\u2019s a clear line between the two shades, showing where vegetation was cut. The white dots show man-made structures.&nbsp;With their unique view from space, Earth observation satellites have been instrumental in highlighting the vulnerability of the rainforests by documenting the scale of deforestation.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured&nbsp;&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceinvideos.esa.int\/Videos\/2013\/10\/Earth_from_Space_Amazon\" 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-217949","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\/217949","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=217949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217949\/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=217949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}