{"id":231617,"date":"2015-07-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"4cf307bdff62c48695a256fa72980e1a"},"modified":"2015-07-24T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T08:00:00","slug":"southern-bavaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=231617","title":{"rendered":"Southern Bavaria"},"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\/2015\/07\/southern_bavaria\/15524902-1-eng-GB\/Southern_Bavaria_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image from Sentinel-1A\u2019s radar captures part of Germany\u2019s state of Bavaria, with the city of Munich on the right and Augsburg at the centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMunich is located on the elevated plains just north of the Alps. Zooming in, we can clearly see the river Isar running through the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlong the northern part of this river, the white radar reflections from buildings give way to an elongated area of vegetation. This is the English Garden, a public park created in 1789 with an informal landscape of a style that was popular in Britain from the mid-18th century to the early 19th century. With an area of over 3.5 sq km, it is one of the world\u2019s largest urban public parks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOutside the city \u2013 particularly to the east and south \u2013 we can see circular areas cut out of the forest to make space for villages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe landscape across this area was shaped by glaciers, including the two large lakes south of Munich \u2013 Lake Starnberg to the east and Ammersee to the west \u2013 that are the results of ice-age glaciers melting. Lake Starnberg is a popular recreation area for Munich, and has been named a wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Convention is an intergovernmental treaty for the sustainable use of wetlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2015\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Southern_Bavaria\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, combines three radar scans from the Sentinel-1A satellite in March and April 2015.&nbsp;<\/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\/2015\/07\/southern_bavaria\/15524902-1-eng-GB\/Southern_Bavaria_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis image from Sentinel-1A\u2019s radar captures part of Germany\u2019s state of Bavaria, with the city of Munich on the right and Augsburg at the centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMunich is located on the elevated plains just north of the Alps. Zooming in, we can clearly see the river Isar running through the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlong the northern part of this river, the white radar reflections from buildings give way to an elongated area of vegetation. This is the English Garden, a public park created in 1789 with an informal landscape of a style that was popular in Britain from the mid-18th century to the early 19th century. With an area of over 3.5 sq km, it is one of the world\u2019s largest urban public parks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOutside the city \u2013 particularly to the east and south \u2013 we can see circular areas cut out of the forest to make space for villages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe landscape across this area was shaped by glaciers, including the two large lakes south of Munich \u2013 Lake Starnberg to the east and Ammersee to the west \u2013 that are the results of ice-age glaciers melting. Lake Starnberg is a popular recreation area for Munich, and has been named a wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Convention is an intergovernmental treaty for the sustainable use of wetlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2015\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Southern_Bavaria\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, combines three radar scans from the Sentinel-1A satellite in March and April 2015.&nbsp;<\/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-231617","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\/231617","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=231617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231617\/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=231617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}