{"id":348340,"date":"2017-07-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=136d88ac339edede6ce25d5ae33a6ffc"},"modified":"2017-07-21T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T08:00:00","slug":"northeastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=348340","title":{"rendered":"Northeastern Europe"},"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\/northeastern_europe\/17073764-1-eng-GB\/Northeastern_Europe_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite takes us over the Baltic Sea and surrounding countries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSnow, ice and clouds dominate the image, providing us with an overall view of the area\u2019s climate when this image was captured on 6 March. Sentinel-3 offers a \u2018bigger picture\u2019 for Europe\u2019s Copernicus programme by systematically measuring Earth\u2019s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFinland is positioned at the centre of the image. The country has been called the \u2018land of a thousand lakes\u2019 \u2013 most of which are covered by ice and snow in this image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo its west is the Gulf of Bothnia, the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea separating part of Finland from Sweden. Clouds on the lower left obstruct our view of the Swedish capital, Stockholm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the upper left we can see part of Norway\u2019s coastline with its famed fjords. During the ice age, ice and rivers carved deep valleys in the mountains. As the climate changed, most of the ice melted and the valleys were gradually filled with salt water from the coast, giving birth to the fjords.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRussia dominates the right side of the image with the ice-covered Lake Onega and partially covered Lake Ladoga.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEstonia is visible in the lower-central part of the image with significantly less snow cover, but with large areas of ice along its coast and on Lake Peipus.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Northeastern_Europe\">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\/07\/northeastern_europe\/17073764-1-eng-GB\/Northeastern_Europe_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite takes us over the Baltic Sea and surrounding countries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSnow, ice and clouds dominate the image, providing us with an overall view of the area&rsquo;s climate when this image was captured on 6 March. Sentinel-3 offers a &lsquo;bigger picture&rsquo; for Europe&rsquo;s Copernicus programme by systematically measuring Earth&rsquo;s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFinland is positioned at the centre of the image. The country has been called the &lsquo;land of a thousand lakes&rsquo; &ndash; most of which are covered by ice and snow in this image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo its west is the Gulf of Bothnia, the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea separating part of Finland from Sweden. Clouds on the lower left obstruct our view of the Swedish capital, Stockholm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the upper left we can see part of Norway&rsquo;s coastline with its famed fjords. During the ice age, ice and rivers carved deep valleys in the mountains. As the climate changed, most of the ice melted and the valleys were gradually filled with salt water from the coast, giving birth to the fjords.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRussia dominates the right side of the image with the ice-covered Lake Onega and partially covered Lake Ladoga.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEstonia is visible in the lower-central part of the image with significantly less snow cover, but with large areas of ice along its coast and on Lake Peipus.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image is featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/07\/Earth_from_Space_Northeastern_Europe\">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-348340","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\/348340","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=348340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348341,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348340\/revisions\/348341"}],"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=348340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}