{"id":639002,"date":"2019-11-28T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639002"},"modified":"2019-11-28T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:40:00","slug":"space-is-key-to-monitoring-ocean-acidification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=639002","title":{"rendered":"Space is key to monitoring ocean acidification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/SMOS_in_orbit_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"SMOS in orbit\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week, the UN World Meteorological Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/public.wmo.int\/en\/media\/press-release\/greenhouse-gas-concentrations-atmosphere-reach-yet-another-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached yet another high. This ongoing trend is not only heating up the planet, but also affecting the chemical composition of our oceans. Until recently, it has been difficult to monitor \u2018ocean acidification\u2019, but scientists are exploring new ways to combine information from different sources, including from ESA\u2019s SMOS mission, to shed new light on this major environmental concern.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/SMOS\/Space_is_key_to_monitoring_ocean_acidification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space is key to monitoring ocean acidification<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the UN World Meteorological Organization announced that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached yet another high. This ongoing trend is not only heating up the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639003,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639002","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=639002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}