{"id":726264,"date":"2010-04-29T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=14768"},"modified":"2010-04-29T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:42:02","slug":"imhotep%e2%80%99s-a-little-ticked-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/726264","title":{"rendered":"Imhotep\u2019s a little ticked | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 2010, a sandstorm swept across the western Sahara desert. NASA&#8217;s Aqua satellite <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=43756\">captured this frightening event<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/imagerecords\/43000\/43756\/sahara_amo_2010112_lrg.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/04\/aqua_sahara.jpg?resize=610%2C407\" alt=\"aqua_sahara\" title=\"aqua_sahara\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14767\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yegads. Click to ensandinate. This is a closeup of a much larger panorama at the border of Namibia and Burkina Faso. The whole front of the storm was about 1000 km (600 miles) across! <\/p>\n<p>I looked at the zoomed image, but couldn&#8217;t find <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120616\/\">Rick O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s biplane<\/a>. That&#8217;s probably all for the best.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CAWAuIpw1cklV2x5MHilWA8Sfzc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CAWAuIpw1cklV2x5MHilWA8Sfzc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CAWAuIpw1cklV2x5MHilWA8Sfzc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/CAWAuIpw1cklV2x5MHilWA8Sfzc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/BBIYylTEZVM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/f1F_Xofsfos\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 22, 2010, a sandstorm swept across the western Sahara desert. NASA&#8217;s Aqua satellite captured this frightening event: Yegads. Click to ensandinate. This is a closeup of a much larger panorama at the border of Namibia and Burkina Faso. The whole front of the storm was about 1000 km (600 miles) across! I looked [&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-726264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32VW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726264","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=726264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}