{"id":514,"date":"2018-12-10T04:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T04:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=514"},"modified":"2018-12-10T05:09:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T05:09:53","slug":"a-new-hope-gedi-launch-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2018\/12\/10\/a-new-hope-gedi-launch-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Hope: GEDI launch successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Esh1jHT9oTA?start=889&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The NASA GEDI laser instrument successfully launched aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, December 5th.\u00a0 The GEDI lidar instrument is on its way to the International Space Station.\u00a0 Once installed, GEDI will circle the Earth at\u00a017,150 miles per hour, emitting laser pulses that penetrate forest canopies and provide 3D images of vegetation structure.\u00a0 GEDI will provide the first landscape scale 3D look at the world&#8217;s temperate and tropical forests.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more about GEDI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2018\/gedi-to-measure-earths-forests\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA GEDI laser instrument successfully launched aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, December 5th.\u00a0 The GEDI lidar instrument is on its way to the International Space Station.\u00a0 Once installed, GEDI will circle the Earth at\u00a017,150 miles per hour, emitting laser pulses that penetrate forest canopies and provide 3D images of vegetation structure.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2018\/12\/10\/a-new-hope-gedi-launch-successful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A New Hope: GEDI launch successful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}