{"id":243400,"date":"2016-10-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9b79f0d2dca88f06830b7323c2742795"},"modified":"2016-10-28T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T08:00:00","slug":"putorana-plateau-siberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243400","title":{"rendered":"Putorana Plateau, Siberia"},"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\/putorana_plateau_siberia\/16201379-1-eng-GB\/Putorana_Plateau_Siberia_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2A brings us over the snowy landscape of the Putorana Plateau in northern Central Siberia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe area pictured shows part of the Putoransky State Nature Reserve, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Situated about 100 km north of the Arctic Circle, the site serves as a major reindeer migration route \u2013 an increasingly rare natural phenomenon \u2013 and is one of the very few centres of plant species richness in the Arctic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVirtually untouched by human influence, this isolated mountain range includes pristine forests and cold-water lake and river systems. The lakes are characterised by elongated, fjord-like shapes, such as Lake Ayan in the upper-central part of the image.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nZooming in on the lake we can see that it is mostly ice-covered, with small patches of water peeking through around its lower reaches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother feature of this area are the flat-topped mountains, formed by a geological process called \u2018plume volcanism\u2019: a large body of magma seeped through Earth\u2019s surface and formed a blanket of basalt kilometres thick. Over time, cracks in the rock filled with water and eroded into the rivers and lakes we see today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/10\/Earth_from_Space_Putorana_Plateau\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was captured on 2 March 2016 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite.<\/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\/putorana_plateau_siberia\/16201379-1-eng-GB\/Putorana_Plateau_Siberia_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2A brings us over the snowy landscape of the Putorana Plateau in northern Central Siberia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe area pictured shows part of the Putoransky State Nature Reserve, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Situated about 100 km north of the Arctic Circle, the site serves as a major reindeer migration route &ndash; an increasingly rare natural phenomenon &ndash; and is one of the very few centres of plant species richness in the Arctic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVirtually untouched by human influence, this isolated mountain range includes pristine forests and cold-water lake and river systems. The lakes are characterised by elongated, fjord-like shapes, such as Lake Ayan in the upper-central part of the image.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nZooming in on the lake we can see that it is mostly ice-covered, with small patches of water peeking through around its lower reaches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother feature of this area are the flat-topped mountains, formed by a geological process called &lsquo;plume volcanism&rsquo;: a large body of magma seeped through Earth&rsquo;s surface and formed a blanket of basalt kilometres thick. Over time, cracks in the rock filled with water and eroded into the rivers and lakes we see today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2016\/10\/Earth_from_Space_Putorana_Plateau\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was captured on 2 March 2016 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite.<\/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-243400","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\/243400","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=243400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243401,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243400\/revisions\/243401"}],"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=243400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}