{"id":219200,"date":"2014-02-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"f180cfc0b18855563a87242e0a9b5937"},"modified":"2014-02-21T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T09:00:00","slug":"kumbunbur-creek-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219200","title":{"rendered":"Kumbunbur Creek, Australia"},"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\/2014\/02\/kumbunbur_creek_australia\/14284275-1-eng-GB\/Kumbunbur_Creek_Australia_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis false-colour satellite image shows the Kumbunbur Creek in Australia\u2019s Northern Territory, about 260 km southwest of the city of Darwin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe green \u2018branches\u2019 of what looks like a tree are the waterways of runoff that flow into the Timor Sea (not pictured).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe false-colour makes vegetation appear bright red, and we can clearly see how vegetation grows mainly along the waterways. Vegetation is more evenly dispersed across the plain to the north.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image was captured by the Kompsat-2 satellite on 20 September 2011, near the end of the dry season. The dry areas with a somewhat dull colour in this image become flooded mudflats during the rainy season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rainy season occurs during a tropical area\u2019s summer months because of increased heat from the Sun\u2019s more direct impact angle. Higher temperatures lead to an increase in evaporation and rising, warm air masses. This air expands and cools, leading to the formation of cumulus clouds, and almost daily rainfall and thunderstorms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs seasons change, the location of these rainfalls travels to areas with the highest Sun impact angles, resulting in wet and dry seasons in different zones of the tropics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tropics are the region of Earth north and south of the equator. Some areas of northern Australia are part of the tropical climate zone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/02\/Earth_from_Space_Kumbunbur\">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\/2014\/02\/kumbunbur_creek_australia\/14284275-1-eng-GB\/Kumbunbur_Creek_Australia_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis false-colour satellite image shows the Kumbunbur Creek in Australia\u2019s Northern Territory, about 260 km southwest of the city of Darwin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe green \u2018branches\u2019 of what looks like a tree are the waterways of runoff that flow into the Timor Sea (not pictured).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe false-colour makes vegetation appear bright red, and we can clearly see how vegetation grows mainly along the waterways. Vegetation is more evenly dispersed across the plain to the north.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image was captured by the Kompsat-2 satellite on 20 September 2011, near the end of the dry season. The dry areas with a somewhat dull colour in this image become flooded mudflats during the rainy season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rainy season occurs during a tropical area\u2019s summer months because of increased heat from the Sun\u2019s more direct impact angle. Higher temperatures lead to an increase in evaporation and rising, warm air masses. This air expands and cools, leading to the formation of cumulus clouds, and almost daily rainfall and thunderstorms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs seasons change, the location of these rainfalls travels to areas with the highest Sun impact angles, resulting in wet and dry seasons in different zones of the tropics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe tropics are the region of Earth north and south of the equator. Some areas of northern Australia are part of the tropical climate zone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/02\/Earth_from_Space_Kumbunbur\">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-219200","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\/219200","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=219200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219200\/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=219200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}