{"id":16021,"date":"2015-10-01T23:47:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/oktoberfest-from-orbit\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T23:47:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:47:13","slug":"oktoberfest-from-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/oktoberfest-from-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Oktoberfest from orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9494\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9494\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11059995_10153697650976289_4861622604622373594_n.jpg\" alt=\"Munich's Theresienwiese is pictured Oct. 1 from DigitalGlobe's WorldView 2 Earth observing satellite. Credit: DigitalGlobe\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11059995_10153697650976289_4861622604622373594_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11059995_10153697650976289_4861622604622373594_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11059995_10153697650976289_4861622604622373594_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11059995_10153697650976289_4861622604622373594_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munich\u2019s Theresienwiese is pictured Oct. 1 from DigitalGlobe\u2019s WorldView 2 Earth observing satellite. Credit: DigitalGlobe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It turns out the world\u2019s most famous beer festival is visible from space.<\/p>\n<p>But even the sharpest-eyed orbiting Earth observatories \u2014 at least those known publicly \u2014 can\u2019t see the thousands of lederhosen- and dirndl-wearing festival-goers hoisting beer by the liter in Munich\u2019s&nbsp;Theresienwiese, where the 182nd celebration of Oktoberfest opened Sept. 19 and runs through Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>DigitalGlobe\u2019s WorldView 2 imaging satellite captured this view of the storied event in full swing Thursday, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>WorldView 2 launched Oct. 8, 2009, from California aboard a Delta 2 rocket. The commercial satellite\u2019s camera can resolve objects as small as 18 inches, or a half-meter, across on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Munich\u2019s Theresienwiese is pictured Oct. 1 from DigitalGlobe\u2019s WorldView 2 Earth observing satellite. Credit: DigitalGlobe It turns out the world\u2019s most famous beer festival is visible from space. But even the sharpest-eyed orbiting Earth observatories \u2014 at least those known publicly \u2014 can\u2019t see the thousands of lederhosen- and dirndl-wearing festival-goers hoisting beer by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1806,3936,3937],"class_list":["post-16021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-digitalglobe","tag-oktoberfest","tag-worldview-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}