{"id":689863,"date":"2010-03-12T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12639"},"modified":"2010-03-12T09:24:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:24:46","slug":"sandswept-world-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/689863","title":{"rendered":"Sandswept world | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/03\/04\/sand-dunes-march-across-mars\/\">the post the other day<\/a> about the winds on Mars blowing the sand dunes and visibly moving them across the planet&#8217;s surface comes <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=43030\">this new satellite image<\/a> of a huge sandstorm raging across the planet:<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/imagerecords\/43000\/43030\/iraq_tmo_2010063_lrg.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/03\/terra_iraq_sand.jpg?resize=610%2C441\" alt=\"terra_iraq_sand\" title=\"terra_iraq_sand\" width=\"610\" height=\"441\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12638\"\/><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;d forgive you if you interpret my saying &#8220;the planet&#8221; as meaning Mars. However, this picture is of Earth! Specifically, the Middle East. This March 4<sup>th<\/sup> image from the Terra satellite shows a plume of sand 100 km (60 miles!) across sweeping from Saudi Arabia over Kuwait and into Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, Mars and Earth are very similar. Sometimes, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/04\/01\/spirit-sees-phenomenal-martian-vista\/\">it&#8217;s even hard to tell them apart&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TwaWhW_Y0KXKt9e-6IYJ5BUOSGA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TwaWhW_Y0KXKt9e-6IYJ5BUOSGA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TwaWhW_Y0KXKt9e-6IYJ5BUOSGA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TwaWhW_Y0KXKt9e-6IYJ5BUOSGA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/vM0oMdT_ixA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/XbAk1yKY_I4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the post the other day about the winds on Mars blowing the sand dunes and visibly moving them across the planet&#8217;s surface comes this new satellite image of a huge sandstorm raging across the planet: Of course, I&#8217;d forgive you if you interpret my saying &#8220;the planet&#8221; as meaning Mars. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TsP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}