{"id":374140,"date":"2017-09-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4b188dc69458c0364cc327d6a2ba06ae"},"modified":"2017-09-15T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:00:00","slug":"syracuse-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=374140","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse, Italy"},"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\/09\/syracuse_italy\/17147682-1-eng-GB\/Syracuse_Italy_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe province of Syracuse on the southeastern coast of the Italian island of Sicily is pictured in this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe provincial capital \u2013 also called Syracuse \u2013 is visible in the lower-central part of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFounded by Greeks in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> century BC, the city was described by Cicero as \u2018the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of all\u2019. Today the ancient town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with notable structures including the Temple of Athena, a Greek theatre, a Roman amphitheatre and more. With vestiges providing testimony to Sicily\u2019s troubled history, Syracuse demonstrates the development of Mediterranean civilisation over three millennia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFarther north along the coast is the city of Augusta with ships speckling the water near its port. The port serves numerous oil refineries up and down the coast; the&nbsp; large, circular oil storage tanks are visible from space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAugusta is also a point of entry for migrants who made the dangerous journey by boat from Africa to Europe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlong the left side of the image we can see the foothills of the Hyblaean Mountains. This range was once a plateau, but has since been eroded. Deep-cut canyons appear like green veins where the vegetation has grown in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/09\/Earth_from_Space_Syracuse\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite on 14 June 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\/09\/syracuse_italy\/17147682-1-eng-GB\/Syracuse_Italy_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe province of Syracuse on the southeastern coast of the Italian island of Sicily is pictured in this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe provincial capital &ndash; also called Syracuse &ndash; is visible in the lower-central part of the image.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFounded by Greeks in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> century BC, the city was described by Cicero as &lsquo;the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of all&rsquo;. Today the ancient town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with notable structures including the Temple of Athena, a Greek theatre, a Roman amphitheatre and more. With vestiges providing testimony to Sicily&rsquo;s troubled history, Syracuse demonstrates the development of Mediterranean civilisation over three millennia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFarther north along the coast is the city of Augusta with ships speckling the water near its port. The port serves numerous oil refineries up and down the coast; the&nbsp; large, circular oil storage tanks are visible from space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAugusta is also a point of entry for migrants who made the dangerous journey by boat from Africa to Europe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlong the left side of the image we can see the foothills of the Hyblaean Mountains. This range was once a plateau, but has since been eroded. Deep-cut canyons appear like green veins where the vegetation has grown in.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image, also featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinvideos\/Videos\/2017\/09\/Earth_from_Space_Syracuse\">Earth from Space video programme<\/a>, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite on 14 June 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-374140","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\/374140","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=374140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374141,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374140\/revisions\/374141"}],"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=374140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}