{"id":241976,"date":"2016-07-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6d22a5a381fa774f21409dc9e39af6f1"},"modified":"2016-07-01T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T08:00:00","slug":"mount-st-helens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241976","title":{"rendered":"Mount St Helens"},"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\/2016\/06\/mount_st_helens\/16048981-1-eng-GB\/Mount_St_Helens_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2A captured this image of Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington on 8 February.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe active volcano is known for its 18 May 1980 eruption. The event claimed some 57 lives and damaged homes and infrastructure. The eruption was caused by an earthquake that lead to a massive landslide of the volcano\u2019s north face, exposing it to lower pressures. The volcano then exploded, depositing widespread ash and melting the mountain\u2019s snow, ice and glaciers that formed a number of volcanic mudslides \u2013 or lahars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome of these lahars are still visible, particularly in the upper left in pink.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this false-colour image, snow cover appears light blue while pink represents areas with little to no vegetation. In the lower-central part of the image, we can see how snow cover ends in the rectangular areas as the elevation drops closer to the river.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rectangular areas show land division, possibly for timber extraction, with the blue and red areas revealing where the trees have been cleared.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2 can be used to manage natural resources, to check rates of deforestation, reforestation and areas affected by wildfire. Information from Sentinel-2 can help governing bodies and commercial enterprises make informed decisions about how best to manage, protect and sustain our important forest resources.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Mount_St_Helens\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/06\/mount_st_helens\/16048981-1-eng-GB\/Mount_St_Helens_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2A captured this image of Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington on 8 February.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe active volcano is known for its 18 May 1980 eruption. The event claimed some 57 lives and damaged homes and infrastructure. The eruption was caused by an earthquake that lead to a massive landslide of the volcano&rsquo;s north face, exposing it to lower pressures. The volcano then exploded, depositing widespread ash and melting the mountain&rsquo;s snow, ice and glaciers that formed a number of volcanic mudslides &ndash; or lahars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome of these lahars are still visible, particularly in the upper left in pink.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this false-colour image, snow cover appears light blue while pink represents areas with little to no vegetation. In the lower-central part of the image, we can see how snow cover ends in the rectangular areas as the elevation drops closer to the river.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe rectangular areas show land division, possibly for timber extraction, with the blue and red areas revealing where the trees have been cleared.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2 can be used to manage natural resources, to check rates of deforestation, reforestation and areas affected by wildfire. Information from Sentinel-2 can help governing bodies and commercial enterprises make informed decisions about how best to manage, protect and sustain our important forest resources.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Mount_St_Helens\">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-241976","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\/241976","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=241976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241977,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241976\/revisions\/241977"}],"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=241976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}