{"id":1862,"date":"2014-12-28T19:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T19:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2014-12-28T19:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T19:08:40","slug":"best-images-of-earth-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2014\/12\/best-images-of-earth-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Best images of Earth in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/12\/nasa-best-earth-from-space-2014\">slideshow of NASA&#8217;s best images of Earth<\/a> that I&#8217;d recommend you to check out if you enjoy images from space!<\/p>\n<p>Below is a picture of the spectacular Bowknot Bend of the\u00a0Green River in Utah (USA), as <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=83353\">taken by an unnamed astronaut on board the ISS<\/a>\u00a0using a Nikon digital camera and 1000mm lens. (The straight white\u00a0line in the picture is a contrail, btw.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Green-River-Utah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1864\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Green-River-Utah-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Green River, Utah\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Green-River-Utah-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Green-River-Utah-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Green-River-Utah.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of images: If you&#8217;re a cartography and projection nerd, you might appreciate <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoghousediaries.com\/5941\">this Doghouse Diaries entry<\/a> about how Earth always looks odd in pictures:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1865\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/doghouse-diaries-earthbook.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/doghouse-diaries-earthbook.png\" alt=\"by Doghouse Diaries, click through for their hover text.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/doghouse-diaries-earthbook.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/doghouse-diaries-earthbook-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/doghouse-diaries-earthbook-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/doghouse-diaries-earthbook-160x160.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoghousediaries.com\/5941\">Doghouse Diaries<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thedoghousediaries.com\/5941\">click through<\/a> for their hover text.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a slideshow of NASA&#8217;s best images of Earth that I&#8217;d recommend you to check out if you enjoy images from space! Below is a picture of the spectacular Bowknot Bend of the\u00a0Green River in Utah (USA), as taken by an unnamed astronaut on board the ISS\u00a0using a Nikon digital camera and 1000mm lens. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2014\/12\/best-images-of-earth-in-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best images of Earth in 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,23,51,52,64,91,95],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","tag-art","tag-cartography","tag-fun","tag-geo","tag-imagery","tag-projection","tag-remote-sensing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Green-River-Utah.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-u2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}