{"id":1698,"date":"2004-07-07T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/07\/07\/\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:26:43","slug":"1698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/1698\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_186.html\" rel=\"external\">Shuttle Radar Sees African Beauty<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>Thanks to the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), African topography can be studied and understood as never before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/sahara-desert.jpg\" alt=\"Sahara Desert\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/60801main_image_feature_186_jwRfull.jpg\" rel=\"external\">Sahara Desert of Mauritania<\/a><\/strong> (photo) &#8211; the prominent circular feature, known as the Richat Structure. It&#8217;s often noted by astronauts because it forms a conspicuous 30-mile-wide bull&#8217;s-eye on the otherwise rather featureless expanse of the desert. Initially mistaken for a possible impact crater, it is now known to be an eroded circular dome of layered sedimentary rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/cape-town.jpg\" alt=\"Cape Town\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/60800main_image_feature_186_jwCfull.jpg\" rel=\"external\">Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa<\/a><\/strong> (photo) &#8211; The city center is located at Table Bay (at the lower left), adjacent to Table Mountain, a 1,086-meter (3,563-foot) tall sandstone and granite natural landmark. This is where I come from! Wow it&#8217;s beautiful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shuttle Radar Sees African BeautyThanks to the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), African topography can be studied and understood as never before. Sahara Desert of Mauritania (photo) &#8211; the prominent circular feature, known as the Richat Structure. It&#8217;s often noted by astronauts because it forms a conspicuous 30-mile-wide bull&#8217;s-eye on the otherwise rather featureless expanse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}