{"id":11788,"date":"2010-03-13T21:09:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/sandswept-world-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-13T21:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:09:22","slug":"sandswept-world-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/sandswept-world-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Sandswept world | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" 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&rsquo;s surface comes <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=43030\">this new satellite image<\/a> of a huge sandstorm raging across the planet:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/imagerecords\/43000\/43030\/iraq_tmo_2010063_lrg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1ad47_terra_iraq_sand.jpg\" alt=\"terra_iraq_sand\" width=\"610\" height=\"441\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12638\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Of course, I&rsquo;d forgive you if you interpret my saying \"the planet\" 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><p>In some ways, Mars and Earth are very similar. Sometimes, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/04\/01\/spirit-sees-phenomenal-martian-vista\/\">it&rsquo;s even hard to tell them apart&hellip;<\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TwaWhW_Y0KXKt9e-6IYJ5BUOSGA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1ad47_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/TwaWhW_Y0KXKt9e-6IYJ5BUOSGA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1ad47_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1ad47_vM0oMdT_ixA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1ad47_XbAk1yKY_I4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","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&rsquo;s surface comes this new satellite image of a huge sandstorm raging across the planet:Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/sandswept-world-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}