{"id":344604,"date":"2017-07-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=17ddf4716e58bc30e168a78d335affad"},"modified":"2017-07-14T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:00:00","slug":"pilanesberg-south-africa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=344604","title":{"rendered":"Pilanesberg, South Africa"},"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\/07\/pilanesberg_south_africa\/17061740-1-eng-GB\/Pilanesberg_South_Africa_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe circular structure dominating this Sentinel-2 image is Pilanesberg, the result of geological activity over more than a billion years. Once a massive volcanic complex towering over 7000 m tall, millions of years of erosion have shaped the landscape to what it is today: concentric rings of hills rising from the surrounding plain, with a diameter of some 25 km.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA greater part of Pilanesberg is a protected game reserve and home to the \u2018big five\u2019: lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, rhinoceros and leopard. Other animals include cheetahs, zebras, giraffes and over 360 species of birds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWithin the circular structure we can see a few bodies of water, the largest being Mankwe near the centre. Before this area was a reserve, farmers built that dam to create this lake, but today it attracts tourists looking to spot wildlife.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe land outside Pilanesberg is speckled by infrastructure such as buildings, roads and even a football stadium (upper right).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSouth Africa is the world\u2019s leading platinum producer, and a number of mines surround the park \u2013 such as the bright area at the top of the image, or square area at the bottom.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Pilanesberg\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite on 18 May 2017.<\/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\/07\/pilanesberg_south_africa\/17061740-1-eng-GB\/Pilanesberg_South_Africa_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe circular structure dominating this Sentinel-2 image is Pilanesberg, the result of geological activity over more than a billion years. Once a massive volcanic complex towering over 7000 m tall, millions of years of erosion have shaped the landscape to what it is today: concentric rings of hills rising from the surrounding plain, with a diameter of some 25 km.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA greater part of Pilanesberg is a protected game reserve and home to the &lsquo;big five&rsquo;: lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, rhinoceros and leopard. Other animals include cheetahs, zebras, giraffes and over 360 species of birds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWithin the circular structure we can see a few bodies of water, the largest being Mankwe near the centre. Before this area was a reserve, farmers built that dam to create this lake, but today it attracts tourists looking to spot wildlife.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe land outside Pilanesberg is speckled by infrastructure such as buildings, roads and even a football stadium (upper right).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSouth Africa is the world&rsquo;s leading platinum producer, and a number of mines surround the park &ndash; such as the bright area at the top of the image, or square area at the bottom.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Pilanesberg\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite on 18 May 2017.<\/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-344604","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\/344604","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=344604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344605,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344604\/revisions\/344605"}],"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=344604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}