{"id":228554,"date":"2015-04-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"e93d8b29f04ee323042cba8d24c8e82c"},"modified":"2015-04-23T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T22:00:00","slug":"esa-euronews-a-satellite-revolution-in-oceanography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=228554","title":{"rendered":"ESA Euronews: A satellite revolution in oceanography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2015\/04\/esa_euronews_a_satellite_revolution_in_oceanography\/15373359-1-eng-GB\/ESA_Euronews_A_satellite_revolution_in_oceanography_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPlymouth is one of England\u2019s historic port cities, a place from which sailors, soldiers and scientists have set off to sea for centuries. Today there\u2019s a new twist to the tale though, as oceanographers now have a huge fleet of satellites in space to add to their list of high quality data sources in order to study and understand our seas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe field of satellite ocean observation is due to get a boost later this year as ESA\u2019s Sentinel-3 will join the fleet of Earth observers already in orbit. It\u2019s part of Europe\u2019s Copernicus programme, and heralds a new era in ocean observation by offering an uninterrupted flow of data from its speedy polar orbit, now and well into the future.<\/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\/videos\/2015\/04\/esa_euronews_a_satellite_revolution_in_oceanography\/15373359-1-eng-GB\/ESA_Euronews_A_satellite_revolution_in_oceanography_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nPlymouth is one of England\u2019s historic port cities, a place from which sailors, soldiers and scientists have set off to sea for centuries. Today there\u2019s a new twist to the tale though, as oceanographers now have a huge fleet of satellites in space to add to their list of high quality data sources in order to study and understand our seas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe field of satellite ocean observation is due to get a boost later this year as ESA\u2019s Sentinel-3 will join the fleet of Earth observers already in orbit. It\u2019s part of Europe\u2019s Copernicus programme, and heralds a new era in ocean observation by offering an uninterrupted flow of data from its speedy polar orbit, now and well into the future.<\/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-228554","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\/228554","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=228554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228554\/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=228554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}