{"id":241566,"date":"2016-06-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fc2ee0753753dab8f5c2cffb1d51f47f"},"modified":"2016-06-17T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T08:00:00","slug":"southern-tibetan-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241566","title":{"rendered":"Southern Tibetan Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Tibetan Plateau was created by continental collision some 55 million years ago when the north-moving Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate, causing the land to crumple and rise. And rise it did. With an average elevation exceeding 4500 m and an area of 2.5 million sq km, it is the highest and largest plateau in the world today.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe plateau is also the world\u2019s third largest store of ice, after the Arctic and Antarctic. In recent years, rising temperatures have caused rapid melting.\n<\/p>\n

\nPart of the Himalayas is visible along the bottom of the false-colour image, with the distinct pattern of water runoff from the mountains. At the end of these rivers and streams we can see the triangle-shapes of sediment deposits \u2013 alluvial fans \u2013 formed when the streams hit the plain and spread out.\n<\/p>\n

\nOne large alluvial fan is visible in the upper-central portion of the image, while smaller ones can be seen on the left.\n<\/p>\n

\nAlluvial fans are subject to flooding, and these areas are increasingly at risk as climate change taking its toll on the world\u2019s glaciers causes accelerated melting.\n<\/p>\n

\nFrom their vantage point 800 km high, satellites can monitor changes in glacier mass, melting and other effects that climate change has on our planet.\n<\/p>\n

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

<\/p>\n

\nThe southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Tibetan Plateau was created by continental collision some 55 million years ago when the north-moving Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate, causing the land to crumple and rise. And rise it did. With an average elevation exceeding 4500 m and an area of 2.5 million sq km, it is the highest and largest plateau in the world today.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe plateau is also the world’s third largest store of ice, after the Arctic and Antarctic. In recent years, rising temperatures have caused rapid melting.\n<\/p>\n

\nPart of the Himalayas is visible along the bottom of the false-colour image, with the distinct pattern of water runoff from the mountains. At the end of these rivers and streams we can see the triangle-shapes of sediment deposits – alluvial fans – formed when the streams hit the plain and spread out.\n<\/p>\n

\nOne large alluvial fan is visible in the upper-central portion of the image, while smaller ones can be seen on the left.\n<\/p>\n

\nAlluvial fans are subject to flooding, and these areas are increasingly at risk as climate change taking its toll on the world’s glaciers causes accelerated melting.\n<\/p>\n

\nFrom their vantage point 800 km high, satellites can monitor changes in glacier mass, melting and other effects that climate change has on our planet.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis image is also 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-241566","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\/241566","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=241566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241567,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241566\/revisions\/241567"}],"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=241566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}