{"id":242680,"date":"2016-09-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d4ade0bc043773970fe8405e26d52758"},"modified":"2016-09-02T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T08:00:00","slug":"upsala-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242680","title":{"rendered":"Upsala 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\/08\/upsala_glacier\/16106989-1-eng-GB\/Upsala_Glacier_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Upsala Glacier in Argentina\u2019s Los Glaciares National Park is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 22 January 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe park was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981 and is the largest in the country, covering an area of over 7000 sq km.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMany glaciers in the national park and in the wider Patagonian Ice Field have been retreating during the last 50 years because of rising temperatures. Upsala Glacier has retreated more than 3 km in the past 15 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGlaciers are the largest reservoirs of freshwater on our planet, and their melting or growing is one of the best indicators of climate change. Satellite data can help to monitor changes in glacier mass and, subsequently, their contribution to rising sea levels.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTaking a closer look at the terminus of the Upsala Glacier, we can see how icebergs have broken off and are floating in the water of the upper reaches of Lake Argentino. The lake\u2019s unique colour is attributed to \u2018glacier milk\u2019 \u2013 suspended fine sediment produced by the abrasion of glaciers rubbing against rock.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe darker lines following the flow of the glacier are moraines: accumulations of rock, soil and other debris \u2013 including glacial milk \u2013 that have been deposited by the glacier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/09\/Earth_from_Space_Upsala_Glacier\">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\/08\/upsala_glacier\/16106989-1-eng-GB\/Upsala_Glacier_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Upsala Glacier in Argentina&rsquo;s Los Glaciares National Park is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 22 January 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe park was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981 and is the largest in the country, covering an area of over 7000 sq km.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMany glaciers in the national park and in the wider Patagonian Ice Field have been retreating during the last 50 years because of rising temperatures. Upsala Glacier has retreated more than 3 km in the past 15 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGlaciers are the largest reservoirs of freshwater on our planet, and their melting or growing is one of the best indicators of climate change. Satellite data can help to monitor changes in glacier mass and, subsequently, their contribution to rising sea levels.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTaking a closer look at the terminus of the Upsala Glacier, we can see how icebergs have broken off and are floating in the water of the upper reaches of Lake Argentino. The lake&rsquo;s unique colour is attributed to &lsquo;glacier milk&rsquo; &ndash; suspended fine sediment produced by the abrasion of glaciers rubbing against rock.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe darker lines following the flow of the glacier are moraines: accumulations of rock, soil and other debris &ndash; including glacial milk &ndash; that have been deposited by the glacier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/09\/Earth_from_Space_Upsala_Glacier\">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-242680","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\/242680","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=242680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242681,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242680\/revisions\/242681"}],"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=242680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}