{"id":221282,"date":"2014-09-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"abe6e1a567fb049d35a6dcb20d416b66"},"modified":"2014-09-12T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T08:00:00","slug":"lake-gairdner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221282","title":{"rendered":"Lake Gairdner"},"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\/09\/lake_gairdner\/14814580-1-eng-GB\/Lake_Gairdner_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLake Gairdner in central South Australia is pictured in this image acquired by Japan\u2019s ALOS satellite on 1 December 2009.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Lake Gairdner National Park \u2013 which includes the nearby lakes Everard and Harris \u2013 was established in 1991 for its signi\ufb01cant wildlife habitat and natural features.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile the area is hot and dry in summer, spring brings water and is a popular destination for birdwatchers. Red and western grey kangaroos, emus and feral camels can also be seen here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen flooded, Gairdner is one of the largest salt lakes in Australia, more than 160 km long and 48 km wide. But when dry, the vast salt pan attracts racers attempting to set land speed records and is the site for the annual Speed Week event.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows mostly the dry, salt-crusted lakebed, while the islands appear brick-red.<\/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\/09\/lake_gairdner\/14814580-1-eng-GB\/Lake_Gairdner_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLake Gairdner in central South Australia is pictured in this image acquired by Japan\u2019s ALOS satellite on 1 December 2009.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Lake Gairdner National Park \u2013 which includes the nearby lakes Everard and Harris \u2013 was established in 1991 for its signi\ufb01cant wildlife habitat and natural features.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile the area is hot and dry in summer, spring brings water and is a popular destination for birdwatchers. Red and western grey kangaroos, emus and feral camels can also be seen here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen flooded, Gairdner is one of the largest salt lakes in Australia, more than 160 km long and 48 km wide. But when dry, the vast salt pan attracts racers attempting to set land speed records and is the site for the annual Speed Week event.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows mostly the dry, salt-crusted lakebed, while the islands appear brick-red.<\/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-221282","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\/221282","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=221282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221282\/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=221282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}