{"id":1242,"date":"2025-04-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/biomass-poised-for-liftoff-to-unveil-forest-secrets\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:00:00","slug":"biomass-poised-for-liftoff-to-unveil-forest-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/biomass-poised-for-liftoff-to-unveil-forest-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomass poised for liftoff to unveil forest secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/04\/biomass_ready_for_liftoff\/26675081-1-eng-GB\/Biomass_ready_for_liftoff_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Biomass ready for liftoff\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After years of careful design and preparation, ESA\u2019s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite is set for launch tomorrow, 29 April at 11:15 CEST, aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>This groundbreaking mission will offer unprecedented insights into the state and evolution of the world\u2019s forests. By mapping the woody material in Earth\u2019s forests, this revolutionary satellite will play a crucial role in deepening our understanding of how forests influence the global carbon cycle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of careful design and preparation, ESA\u2019s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite is set for launch tomorrow, 29 April at 11:15 CEST, aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. This groundbreaking mission will offer unprecedented insights into the state and evolution of the world\u2019s forests. By mapping the woody material in Earth\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}