{"id":221617,"date":"2014-10-15T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"c620b9cd67d2429585ddabdc70180afb"},"modified":"2014-10-15T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T12:42:00","slug":"lake-county-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221617","title":{"rendered":"Lake County, Oregon"},"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\/10\/lake_county_oregon\/14973468-1-eng-GB\/Lake_County_Oregon_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image from Sentinel-1A was acquired over the Lake County in the US state of Oregon on 17 July.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEven though the northwestern United States receives plenty of rainfall, the \u2018high desert region\u2019 east of the Cascade Mountain Range is fairly dry. Most crops require irrigation, such as the circles visible in this image from a centre pivot irrigation system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1\u2019s radar gathers information in either horizontal or vertical radar pulses, and colours were assigned to the different types. In this image, rough surfaces \u2013 like vegetated areas \u2013 appear white and light blue while smoother surfaces are red and black.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome of the black areas are \u2013 or once were \u2013 lakes. These lakes formed when glaciers melted after the last ice ages, but dried up as the climate became drier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRunning north\u2013south through the centre of the image we see a line of evenly dispersed red dots. These are reflections from metal towers holding power lines. While these structures are difficult to spot in optical imagery, their reflectivity makes them more visible to radar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLaunched in April, Sentinel-1A recently completed its commissioning phase, ensuring that the satellite, instruments, data acquisition and data processing procedures are working well. During this phase, it manoeuvred eight times to avoid space debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite is now fully operational delivering radar data for an array of services and scientific research.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2014\/10\/Earth_from_Space_High_desert\">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\/10\/lake_county_oregon\/14973468-1-eng-GB\/Lake_County_Oregon_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image from Sentinel-1A was acquired over the Lake County in the US state of Oregon on 17 July.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEven though the northwestern United States receives plenty of rainfall, the \u2018high desert region\u2019 east of the Cascade Mountain Range is fairly dry. Most crops require irrigation, such as the circles visible in this image from a centre pivot irrigation system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1\u2019s radar gathers information in either horizontal or vertical radar pulses, and colours were assigned to the different types. In this image, rough surfaces \u2013 like vegetated areas \u2013 appear white and light blue while smoother surfaces are red and black.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome of the black areas are \u2013 or once were \u2013 lakes. These lakes formed when glaciers melted after the last ice ages, but dried up as the climate became drier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRunning north\u2013south through the centre of the image we see a line of evenly dispersed red dots. These are reflections from metal towers holding power lines. While these structures are difficult to spot in optical imagery, their reflectivity makes them more visible to radar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLaunched in April, Sentinel-1A recently completed its commissioning phase, ensuring that the satellite, instruments, data acquisition and data processing procedures are working well. During this phase, it manoeuvred eight times to avoid space debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite is now fully operational delivering radar data for an array of services and scientific research.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2014\/10\/Earth_from_Space_High_desert\">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-221617","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\/221617","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=221617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221617\/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=221617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}