{"id":695721,"date":"2021-07-12T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=695721"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:30:01","slug":"the-ocean-is-full-of-tiny-plastic-particles-we-found-a-way-to-track-them-with-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=695721","title":{"rendered":"The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles \u2013 we found a way to track them with satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic is the most common type of debris floating in the world&#8217;s oceans. Waves and sunlight break much of it down into smaller particles called microplastics\u2014fragments less than 5 millimeters across, roughly the size of a sesame seed.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-07-ocean-full-tiny-plastic-particles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles \u2013 we found a way to track them with satellites<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic is the most common type of debris floating in the world&#8217;s oceans. Waves and sunlight break much of it down into smaller particles called microplastics\u2014fragments less than 5 millimeters&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695721","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=695721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695721\/revisions"}],"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=695721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}