{"id":1244,"date":"2025-04-29T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/biomass-launched-to-count-forest-carbon\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:30:00","slug":"biomass-launched-to-count-forest-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/biomass-launched-to-count-forest-carbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomass launched to count forest carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/04\/biomass_takes_to_the_skies\/26670120-5-eng-GB\/Biomass_takes_to_the_skies_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Biomass takes to the skies\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world\u2019s forests and their crucial role in Earth\u2019s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 29 April at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world\u2019s forests and their crucial role in Earth\u2019s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 29 April at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","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\/1244","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=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}