{"id":634988,"date":"2019-10-18T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=634988"},"modified":"2019-10-18T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T12:46:00","slug":"evolution-of-the-cracks-in-the-pine-island-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=634988","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of the cracks in the Pine Island Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Evolution_of_the_cracks_in_the_Pine_Island_Glacier_small-2.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, the animation shows the evolution of the two emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier. The sizes of Paris and Manhattan are used a reference to understand the scale of the glacier\u2019s cracks. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission carries radar, which can return images regardless of day or night and this allows us year-round viewing, which is especially important through the long, dark winter months.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2019\/10\/Evolution_of_the_cracks_in_the_Pine_Island_Glacier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Evolution of the cracks in the Pine Island Glacier<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, the animation shows the evolution of the two emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier. The sizes of Paris and Manhattan are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634989,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634988","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\/634988","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/634989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}