{"id":675684,"date":"2020-12-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675684"},"modified":"2020-12-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:00:00","slug":"iceberg-on-collision-course-with-south-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675684","title":{"rendered":"Iceberg on collision course with South Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iceberg_on_collision_course_with_South_Georgia_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:02:06<\/p>\n<p>The giant A-68A iceberg could strike land this month \u2013 wreaking havoc near the waters of the South Georgia Island.<\/p>\n<p>Since its \u2018birth\u2019 in 2017, the iceberg has travelled thousands of kilometres from the Larsen C ice shelf, in Antarctica, and now lies around 120 km from South Georgia. If it remains on its current path, the iceberg could ground in the shallow waters offshore \u2013 threatening wildlife, including penguins and seals.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite missions are being used to track the berg on its journey over the past three years. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission<\/a>, with its ability to see through clouds and the dark, has been instrumental in mapping the polar regions in winter.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2020\/12\/Iceberg_on_collision_course_with_South_Georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Iceberg on collision course with South Georgia<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:02:06 The giant A-68A iceberg could strike land this month \u2013 wreaking havoc near the waters of the South Georgia Island. Since its \u2018birth\u2019 in 2017, the iceberg has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675685,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675684","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\/675684","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=675684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/675685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}