{"id":119894,"date":"2026-08-24T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/119894\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:01:37","slug":"esa-pennine-alps-glacier-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/119894\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Pennine Alps glacier retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This animation uses two false-colour images from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Copernicus Sentinel-2<\/a> mission, acquired on 23 August 2016 and 23 August 2026, to highlight the loss of glacier ice in the Pennine Alps of Switzerland over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Captured exactly 10 years apart, the images make the changes in glacier extent clearly visible. Glacier ice appears in electric blue, while lakes are shown in a deeper blue. Because both images were acquired in August, the blue areas represent ice rather than snow, which can be more difficult to distinguish in Sentinel-2 imagery captured during the winter months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This animation uses two false-colour images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, acquired on 23 August 2016 and 23&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-119894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117151798754491015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}