{"id":87114,"date":"2010-04-15T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-receives-cryosat-data\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T10:34:43","slug":"esa-receives-cryosat-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-receives-cryosat-data\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Receives CryoSat Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-15-10] <strong>The European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) has started to receive data from the CryoSat-2 satellite, the organization confirmed April 13. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite, launched April 8 as part of Europe\u2019s first mission dedicated to studying variations in Earth\u2019s ice cover, entered polar orbit just minutes after launch last Thursday, marking the start of three days of intense activity.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mission controllers at ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Center have been monitoring CryoSat-2 around the clock to ensure the satellite\u2019s systems and payload were functioning normally.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cOur first data were taken over the Antarctic\u2019s Ross Ice Shelf, and clearly show the ice cover and reflections from underlying layers. These are excellent results at such an early stage and are a tribute to the hard work of the entire CryoSat community,\u201d Duncan Wingham, CryoSat\u2019s lead investigator, said in a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-15-10] The European Space Agency (ESA) has started to receive data from the CryoSat-2 satellite, the organization confirmed April 13. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite, launched April 8 as part of Europe\u2019s first mission dedicated to studying variations in Earth\u2019s ice cover, entered polar orbit just minutes after launch last Thursday, marking the start of three days [&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":[],"class_list":["post-87114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87114"}],"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=87114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}