{"id":13966,"date":"2017-12-20T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T10:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=13966"},"modified":"2020-05-27T06:20:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:20:10","slug":"lake-chany-imaged-proba-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/lake-chany-imaged-proba-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Chany imaged by Proba-V"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13967\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_Chany_imaged_by_Proba-V_node_full_image_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_Chany_imaged_by_Proba-V_node_full_image_2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Lake_Chany_imaged_by_Proba-V_node_full_image_2-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESA\/Belspo \u2013 produced by VITO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Russia\u2019s frozen Lake Chany dusted by snow, as seen by ESA\u2019s Proba-V Earth-observing minisatellite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sitting just north of the border with Kazakhstan, Lake Chany is a large but shallow freshwater lake surrounded by wetlands, salt marshes and birch and aspen forests, making it an important stop for birds migrating southwards from colder Siberia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Launched on 7 May 2013,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Proba_Missions\/Overview2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proba-V<\/a>\u00a0is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Its main camera\u2019s continent-spanning 2250 km swath width collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands at 300 m resolution and down to 100 m resolution in its central field of view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">VITO Remote Sensing in Belgium processes and then distributes Proba-V data to users worldwide. An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/proba-v.vgt.vito.be\/en\/proba-v-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online image gallery<\/a>\u00a0highlights some of the mission\u2019s most striking images so far, including views of storms, fires and deforestation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This 100 m-resolution image was acquired on 1 December 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s frozen Lake Chany dusted by snow, as seen by ESA\u2019s Proba-V Earth-observing minisatellite. Sitting just north of the border with Kazakhstan, Lake Chany is a large but shallow freshwater lake surrounded by wetlands, salt marshes and birch and aspen forests, making it an important stop for birds migrating southwards from colder Siberia. 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