{"id":14827,"date":"2018-03-28T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T09:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=14827"},"modified":"2020-05-27T06:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:03:14","slug":"turning-snow-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/turning-snow-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning snow orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14828\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"671\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by ESA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sand and dust stirred up by desert storms in north Africa have caused snow in eastern Europe to turn orange, transforming mountainous regions into Mars-like landscapes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This Copernicus Sentinel-2A image of Libya captured on 22 March shows Saharan dust being blown northwards across the Mediterranean Sea. Lifted into the atmosphere, the dust was carried by the wind and pulled back down to the surface in rain and snow. It reached as far afield as Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Russia. While the orange-tinted snow baffled skiers, meteorologists say this phenomenon occurs about every five years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sand and dust stirred up by desert storms in north Africa have caused snow in eastern Europe to turn orange, transforming mountainous regions into Mars-like landscapes. This Copernicus Sentinel-2A image of Libya captured on 22 March shows Saharan dust being blown northwards across the Mediterranean Sea. Lifted into the atmosphere, the dust was carried by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,671,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2-300x288.jpg",300,288,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,671,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,671,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,671,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,671,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,671,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",595,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",600,575,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",600,575,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",511,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",376,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",68,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",640,613,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",96,92,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Turning_snow_orange_node_full_image_2.jpg",150,144,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}