{"id":269771,"date":"2017-02-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=09091b40fe8a9cff85af1acbf83f0f0f"},"modified":"2017-02-03T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T09:00:00","slug":"musa-bay-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=269771","title":{"rendered":"Musa Bay, Iran"},"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\/2017\/02\/musa_bay_iran\/16629345-1-eng-GB\/Musa_Bay_Iran_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIran\u2019s Musa Bay on the northern end of the Persian Gulf is pictured in this image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite on 13 January 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNear the centre, we can see the port city of Bandar Imam Khomeini, situated at the terminus of the Trans-Iranian Railway \u2013 a route that links the Persian Gulf with Iran\u2019s capital, Tehran.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe dark area to the right of the port is Musa Bay, a shallow estuary. The large geometric structures along the top appear to be evaporation ponds for extracting naturally occurring minerals from the ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe left side of the image is dominated by the marshes and mudflats of the Shadegan wildlife refuge. It is the largest wetland in Iran, and plays a significant role in the natural ecology of the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe area provides a wintering habitat for a wide variety of migratory birds, and is the most important site in the world for a rare species of aquatic bird: the marbled duck. The northern part of the wetland is a vital freshwater habitat for many endangered species.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis area is considered a wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention, an intergovernmental treaty for the sustainable use of wetlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWorld Wetlands Day is observed every year on 2 February.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/02\/Earth_from_Space_Musa_Bay_Iran\" >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\/2017\/02\/musa_bay_iran\/16629345-1-eng-GB\/Musa_Bay_Iran_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIran&rsquo;s Musa Bay on the northern end of the Persian Gulf is pictured in this image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite on 13 January 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNear the centre, we can see the port city of Bandar Imam Khomeini, situated at the terminus of the Trans-Iranian Railway &ndash; a route that links the Persian Gulf with Iran&rsquo;s capital, Tehran.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe dark area to the right of the port is Musa Bay, a shallow estuary. The large geometric structures along the top appear to be evaporation ponds for extracting naturally occurring minerals from the ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe left side of the image is dominated by the marshes and mudflats of the Shadegan wildlife refuge. It is the largest wetland in Iran, and plays a significant role in the natural ecology of the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe area provides a wintering habitat for a wide variety of migratory birds, and is the most important site in the world for a rare species of aquatic bird: the marbled duck. The northern part of the wetland is a vital freshwater habitat for many endangered species.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis area is considered a wetland of international importance by the Ramsar Convention, an intergovernmental treaty for the sustainable use of wetlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWorld Wetlands Day is observed every year on 2 February.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/02\/Earth_from_Space_Musa_Bay_Iran\" target=\"_blank\">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-269771","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\/269771","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=269771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269772,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269771\/revisions\/269772"}],"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=269771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}