{"id":238426,"date":"2015-12-11T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=738105ce76c55acf02ba8de1ce8ce0d4"},"modified":"2015-12-11T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T09:05:00","slug":"french-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238426","title":{"rendered":"French portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis natural colour image from Sentinel-2A on 29 August features the area of Les Deux Alpes and surroundings, in France. A ski resort in the French Is\u00e8re department, the village of Les Deux Alpes sits at 1650 m with its ski lifts running up to 3600 m.\n<\/p>\n

\nLocated near Western Europe\u2019s largest mountain, Mont Blanc, it accesses the greatest skiable glacier in Europe and is France\u2019s second oldest ski resort.  \n<\/p>\n

\nThe relief differences in the area are clear thanks to Sentinel-2\u2019s high-resolution multispectral instrument. The brownish colours represent those parts of the mountains without vegetation or settlements. The village of Le Bourg-d\u2019Oisans is clearly visible in the centre of the image, with agricultural plots around it.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe grey area on the top left corner is the city of Grenoble, in the Rh\u00f4ne-Alps region of southeastern France. It sits along the Is\u00e8re River, at 214 m above sea level.\n<\/p>\n

\nHome to some 160 000 people, Grenoble\u2019s history goes back 2000 years. Today it is a leading scientific research centre, renowned for research in nuclear physics and microelectronics.\n<\/p>\n

\nAmong various bodies of water, the Lac Monteynard-Avignonet is clearly visible, snaking its way down the image. This is a 10 km-long and, in some places, 300 m-wide artificial reservoir created in 1961. Often windy and rippled, the lake is considered to be one of the best places for wind and kite surfing in Europe.\n<\/p>\n

\nSentinel-2A has been in orbit since 23 June as a polar-orbiting, high-resolution satellite for land monitoring, providing imagery of vegetation, soil and water cover, inland waterways and coastal areas. \n<\/p>\n

\nThis image is featured on the Earth from Space video programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nThis natural colour image from Sentinel-2A on 29 August features the area of Les Deux Alpes and surroundings, in France. A ski resort in the French Isère department, the village of Les Deux Alpes sits at 1650 m with its ski lifts running up to 3600 m.\n<\/p>\n

\nLocated near Western Europe’s largest mountain, Mont Blanc, it accesses the greatest skiable glacier in Europe and is France’s second oldest ski resort.  \n<\/p>\n

\nThe relief differences in the area are clear thanks to Sentinel-2’s high-resolution multispectral instrument. The brownish colours represent those parts of the mountains without vegetation or settlements. The village of Le Bourg-d’Oisans is clearly visible in the centre of the image, with agricultural plots around it.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe grey area on the top left corner is the city of Grenoble, in the Rhône-Alps region of southeastern France. It sits along the Isère River, at 214 m above sea level.\n<\/p>\n

\nHome to some 160 000 people, Grenoble’s history goes back 2000 years. Today it is a leading scientific research centre, renowned for research in nuclear physics and microelectronics.\n<\/p>\n

\nAmong various bodies of water, the Lac Monteynard-Avignonet is clearly visible, snaking its way down the image. This is a 10 km-long and, in some places, 300 m-wide artificial reservoir created in 1961. Often windy and rippled, the lake is considered to be one of the best places for wind and kite surfing in Europe.\n<\/p>\n

\nSentinel-2A has been in orbit since 23 June as a polar-orbiting, high-resolution satellite for land monitoring, providing imagery of vegetation, soil and water cover, inland waterways and coastal areas. \n<\/p>\n

\nThis image is featured on the 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-238426","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\/238426","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=238426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238427,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238426\/revisions\/238427"}],"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=238426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}