{"id":357029,"date":"2017-08-10T08:39:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7f28d682fba48680d55d5c5394799011"},"modified":"2017-08-10T08:39:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:39:03","slug":"image-solar-evaporation-ponds-near-moab-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=357029","title":{"rendered":"Image: Solar evaporation ponds near Moab, Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, Utah. There are 23 colorful ponds spread across 400 acres. They are part of a large operation to\u00a0mine potassium chloride\u2014more commonly referred to as muriate of potash (MOP)\u2014from ore buried underground. MOP is in high demand as fertilizer because there are\u00a0no easy substitutes\u00a0for potassium, an essential nutrient for plant growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, Utah. There are 23 colorful ponds spread across 400 acres. They are part of a large operation to&nbsp;mine potassium chloride&mdash;more commonly referred to as muriate of potash (MOP)&mdash;from ore buried underground. MOP is in high demand as fertilizer because there are&nbsp;no easy substitutes&nbsp;for potassium, an essential nutrient for plant growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357029","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357030,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357029\/revisions\/357030"}],"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=357029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}