{"id":220612,"date":"2014-07-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"d9bfc65d9ccffb82f46bf5edf3e81d08"},"modified":"2014-07-25T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T08:00:00","slug":"cal-madow-mountain-range-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220612","title":{"rendered":"Cal Madow mountain range, Somalia"},"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\/07\/cal_madow_mountain_range_somalia\/14640327-1-eng-GB\/Cal_Madow_mountain_range_Somalia_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nNorthern Somalia\u2019s Cal Madow mountain range is pictured in this image from Japan\u2019s ALOS satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn contrast to the sparsely-vegetated majority of the country \u2013 typical of its semi-arid to arid climate \u2013 the mountain range is densely forested. In this image, the vegetated areas appear much darker.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ecologically diverse region is home to a number of endemic plants species, as well as many rare animals. Unfortunately, the area lacks proper conservation and is threatened by deforestation and intensive livestock grazing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe uplifted plateau to the south has the distinct pattern of water erosion from rivers and streams making their way towards the edges of the cliffs, before cascading down. There are numerous perennial and persistent waterfalls in this region.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn some areas, we can see where water continues to flow north across the coastal plain towards the Gulf of Aden (not pictured).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite captured this image on 2 January 2011. ALOS 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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn April 2011 the satellite abruptly lost power while mapping Japan\u2019s tsunami-hit coastline. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Cal_Madow\">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\/07\/cal_madow_mountain_range_somalia\/14640327-1-eng-GB\/Cal_Madow_mountain_range_Somalia_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nNorthern Somalia\u2019s Cal Madow mountain range is pictured in this image from Japan\u2019s ALOS satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn contrast to the sparsely-vegetated majority of the country \u2013 typical of its semi-arid to arid climate \u2013 the mountain range is densely forested. In this image, the vegetated areas appear much darker.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ecologically diverse region is home to a number of endemic plants species, as well as many rare animals. Unfortunately, the area lacks proper conservation and is threatened by deforestation and intensive livestock grazing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe uplifted plateau to the south has the distinct pattern of water erosion from rivers and streams making their way towards the edges of the cliffs, before cascading down. There are numerous perennial and persistent waterfalls in this region.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn some areas, we can see where water continues to flow north across the coastal plain towards the Gulf of Aden (not pictured).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Japanese Advanced Land Observation Satellite captured this image on 2 January 2011. ALOS 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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn April 2011 the satellite abruptly lost power while mapping Japan\u2019s tsunami-hit coastline. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2014\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Cal_Madow\">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-220612","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\/220612","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=220612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220612\/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=220612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}