{"id":243216,"date":"2016-10-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e0e28a2f13695ca58b2eea053beda402"},"modified":"2016-10-14T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:00:00","slug":"vatnajokull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243216","title":{"rendered":"Vatnaj\u00f6kull"},"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\/10\/vatnajoekull\/16179603-1-eng-GB\/Vatnajoekull_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Landsat-8 satellite takes us over Iceland\u2019s southeastern coast and the Vatnaj\u00f6kull glacier in this false-colour image from 6 September 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGlaciers cover 11% of Iceland\u2019s landscape, the largest being the Vatnaj\u00f6kull \u2013 known as the Vatna Glacier in English \u2013 which at 8000 sq km is also the largest in Europe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUp to a kilometre thick, the Vatna ice cap has about 30 outlet glaciers \u2013 many of which are retreating owing to warming temperatures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA number of volcanoes lie underneath this ice cap, including the infamous Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn, which caused disruption of northern European air traffic in recent years following eruptions and the spread of ash plumes. This volcano is visible as a black arc on the central-left side of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 1996 an eruption of Gr\u00edmsv\u00f6tn caused some of the overlying glacial ice to melt. The water then broke out of the ice cap and flooded the nearby outwash plain, causing millions of dollars\u2019 worth of damage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the upper-central part of the image, in an area known as the Holuhraun lava field, we can see a bright orange strip of lava through a crack in the surface. This type of elongated volcanic eruption is known as a fissure vent, and usually occurs without any explosive activity. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/10\/Earth_from_Space_Vatnajoekull\">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\/10\/vatnajoekull\/16179603-1-eng-GB\/Vatnajoekull_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Landsat-8 satellite takes us over Iceland&rsquo;s southeastern coast and the Vatnaj&ouml;kull glacier in this false-colour image from 6 September 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGlaciers cover 11% of Iceland&rsquo;s landscape, the largest being the Vatnaj&ouml;kull &ndash; known as the Vatna Glacier in English &ndash; which at 8000 sq km is also the largest in Europe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUp to a kilometre thick, the Vatna ice cap has about 30 outlet glaciers &ndash; many of which are retreating owing to warming temperatures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA number of volcanoes lie underneath this ice cap, including the infamous Gr&iacute;msv&ouml;tn, which caused disruption of northern European air traffic in recent years following eruptions and the spread of ash plumes. This volcano is visible as a black arc on the central-left side of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 1996 an eruption of Gr&iacute;msv&ouml;tn caused some of the overlying glacial ice to melt. The water then broke out of the ice cap and flooded the nearby outwash plain, causing millions of dollars&rsquo; worth of damage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the upper-central part of the image, in an area known as the Holuhraun lava field, we can see a bright orange strip of lava through a crack in the surface. This type of elongated volcanic eruption is known as a fissure vent, and usually occurs without any explosive activity. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/10\/Earth_from_Space_Vatnajoekull\">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-243216","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\/243216","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=243216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243217,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243216\/revisions\/243217"}],"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=243216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}