{"id":301701,"date":"2017-04-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d0ef850057bc3673a1dad1c57d257458"},"modified":"2017-04-14T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T08:00:00","slug":"central-eastern-brazil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=301701","title":{"rendered":"Central-eastern Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSentinel-2A takes us over central-eastern Brazil \u2013 more specifically where the Bahia, Tocantins and Goi\u00e1s states meet.\n<\/p>\n

\nClick on the box in the lower-right corner to view this image at its full 10 m resolution directly in your browser.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere we can see a large, flat plateau blanked with fields benefiting from rich soils and an apparent abundance of water, before falling off into a green, hilly valley (left). The straight lines in the image are roads, such as the highway running in a nearly straight line from the centre-top to bottom of the image.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe area is particularly known for soybean production. The country\u2019s soybean output has increased by more than 3000% since the 1970s, and Brazil is the second largest global producer of soybeans after the US.\n<\/p>\n

\nOther crops in this area include corn, coffee and cotton.\n<\/p>\n

\nA distinctive feature in this image is the circles \u2013 mainly at the centre. These shapes were created by a central-pivot irrigation system, where a long water pipe rotates around a well at the centre of each plot. The varying colours show different types of crop, or different stages of growth.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe two-satellite Sentinel-2 mission is designed to monitor changing lands, including crop type and health. While the first satellite has been in orbit since 2015, its Sentinel-2B twin was launched on 7 March. Together, the satellites will provide new images of Earth\u2019s land surfaces every five days.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis image, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite on 8 August 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nSentinel-2A takes us over central-eastern Brazil – more specifically where the Bahia, Tocantins and Goiás states meet.\n<\/p>\n

\nClick on the box in the lower-right corner to view this image at its full 10 m resolution directly in your browser.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere we can see a large, flat plateau blanked with fields benefiting from rich soils and an apparent abundance of water, before falling off into a green, hilly valley (left). The straight lines in the image are roads, such as the highway running in a nearly straight line from the centre-top to bottom of the image.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe area is particularly known for soybean production. The country’s soybean output has increased by more than 3000% since the 1970s, and Brazil is the second largest global producer of soybeans after the US.\n<\/p>\n

\nOther crops in this area include corn, coffee and cotton.\n<\/p>\n

\nA distinctive feature in this image is the circles – mainly at the centre. These shapes were created by a central-pivot irrigation system, where a long water pipe rotates around a well at the centre of each plot. The varying colours show different types of crop, or different stages of growth.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe two-satellite Sentinel-2 mission is designed to monitor changing lands, including crop type and health. While the first satellite has been in orbit since 2015, its Sentinel-2B twin was launched on 7 March. Together, the satellites will provide new images of Earth’s land surfaces every five days.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis image, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite on 8 August 2016.<\/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-301701","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\/301701","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=301701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301702,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301701\/revisions\/301702"}],"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=301701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}