{"id":242072,"date":"2016-07-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5599dc46d8dbe9fa1644c5f06ec2fa21"},"modified":"2016-07-08T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T08:00:00","slug":"malaspina-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242072","title":{"rendered":"Malaspina Glacier"},"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\/07\/malaspina_glacier\/16057450-1-eng-GB\/Malaspina_Glacier_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over southeastern Alaska to the Malaspina Glacier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe climate and topography of this area over the last 12.5 million years have been favourable for glaciers. During the Ice Age, a vast ice sheet covered this spot. When temperatures rose, an interglacial period began.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe coastal mountains and the maritime climate of this area provide the perfect setting for glaciation: some of the world\u2019s longest and most spectacular glaciers are found here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMalaspina is a piedmont glacier \u2013 meaning that ice flows down a steep valley and spills out onto a relatively flat plain. It is the largest of its kind, with an area of about 3900 sq km. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this false-colour image, red depicts vegetated areas while purple shows rock. The wavy purple lines around the lower half of the glacier are rock, soil and other debris that have been deposited by the glacier \u2013 called moraines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSatellite data show that the elevation of Malaspina has dropped over the past decades, and this ice loss has made a significant contribution to sea-level rise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Malaspina_Glacier\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was acquired on 8 March 2016. The low Sun level at Alaska\u2019s high latitudes during this season is evident by the shadows cast north by the Elias Mountains.<\/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\/07\/malaspina_glacier\/16057450-1-eng-GB\/Malaspina_Glacier_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over southeastern Alaska to the Malaspina Glacier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe climate and topography of this area over the last 12.5 million years have been favourable for glaciers. During the Ice Age, a vast ice sheet covered this spot. When temperatures rose, an interglacial period began.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe coastal mountains and the maritime climate of this area provide the perfect setting for glaciation: some of the world&rsquo;s longest and most spectacular glaciers are found here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMalaspina is a piedmont glacier &ndash; meaning that ice flows down a steep valley and spills out onto a relatively flat plain. It is the largest of its kind, with an area of about 3900 sq km. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this false-colour image, red depicts vegetated areas while purple shows rock. The wavy purple lines around the lower half of the glacier are rock, soil and other debris that have been deposited by the glacier &ndash; called moraines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSatellite data show that the elevation of Malaspina has dropped over the past decades, and this ice loss has made a significant contribution to sea-level rise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Malaspina_Glacier\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was acquired on 8 March 2016. The low Sun level at Alaska&rsquo;s high latitudes during this season is evident by the shadows cast north by the Elias Mountains.<\/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-242072","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\/242072","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=242072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242073,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242072\/revisions\/242073"}],"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=242072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}