{"id":553046,"date":"2018-11-21T06:38:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20180007794"},"modified":"2018-11-21T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T10:38:13","slug":"monitoring-and-modeling-the-rapid-evolution-of-earths-newest-volcanic-island-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-tonga-using-high-spatial-resolution-satellite-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=553046","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring and Modeling the Rapid Evolution of Earth&#8217;s Newest Volcanic Island: Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha&#8217;apai (Tonga) Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: We have monitored a newly erupted volcanic island in the Kingdom of Tonga, unofficially known as Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha&#8217;apai, by means of relatively frequent high spatial resolution (~50 cm) satellite observations. The new ~1.8 km 2(exp) island formed as a tuff cone over the course of a month-long hydromagmatic eruption in early 2015 in the Tonga-Kermadec volcanic arc. Such ash-dominated eruptions usually produce fragile subaerial landscapes that wash away rapidly due to marine erosion, as occu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: We have monitored a newly erupted volcanic island in the Kingdom of Tonga, unofficially known as Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha&#8217;apai, by means of relatively frequent high spatial resolution (~50 cm) satellite observations. The new ~1.8 km 2(exp) island&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553046","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553047,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553046\/revisions\/553047"}],"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=553046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}