{"id":674653,"date":"2020-12-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674653"},"modified":"2020-12-02T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T15:00:00","slug":"copernicus-satellites-keep-eyes-on-icebergs-for-vendee-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=674653","title":{"rendered":"Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vend\u00e9e Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Start_of_Vendee_Globe_2020_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Start of Vend&#xE9;e Globe 2020\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 8 November, 33 intrepid sailors set off from Les Sables-D\u2019Olonne in western France to take part in the most extreme, solo, non-stop, race around the world: the Vend\u00e9e Globe. The route of around 45 000 km takes them down through the Atlantic and into the heart of the Southern Ocean \u2013 which is where they are heading now. Thanks to information from satellites, an ice exclusion zone has been established to help keep sailors away from icebergs. For extra safety, satellite images and data are being used to map any ice around Antarctica before the sailors pass through.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-1\/Copernicus_satellites_keep_eyes_on_icebergs_for_Vendee_Globe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vend\u00e9e Globe<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 November, 33 intrepid sailors set off from Les Sables-D\u2019Olonne in western France to take part in the most extreme, solo, non-stop, race around the world: the Vend\u00e9e Globe.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674654,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674653","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\/674653","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=674653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/674654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}