{"id":8605,"date":"2012-08-14T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/nasa-satellites-discover-source-of-mysterious-volcanic-debris-in-south-pacific\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:13:40","slug":"nasa-satellites-discover-source-of-mysterious-volcanic-debris-in-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/nasa-satellites-discover-source-of-mysterious-volcanic-debris-in-south-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA satellites discover source of mysterious volcanic debris in South Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on a routine patrol late last week a New Zealand Defense Force patrol craft spotted a massive area of pumice floating in the South Pacific from an unknown source. Teaming up with NASA, volcanologists today pinpointed the source of a raft of debris covering thousands of square miles.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/nasa-satellites-discover-source-of-mysterious-volcanic-debris-south-pacific?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com<\/a>\u00a0including satellite imagery of the undersea eruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/nasa-satellites-discover-source-of-mysterious-volcanic-debris-south-pacific?cid=rss\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A photo of the pumice raft when it was first spotted by a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Orion aircraft. (RNZAF)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/a6\/29\/a6298ab2f1846b0ff8c98830e0ca46fb.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of the pumice raft when it was first spotted by a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Orion aircraft. (RNZAF)\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the pumice raft when it was first spotted by a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Orion aircraft. (RNZAF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on a routine patrol late last week a New Zealand Defense Force patrol craft spotted a massive area of pumice floating in the South Pacific from an unknown source. Teaming up with NASA, volcanologists today pinpointed the source of a raft of debris covering thousands of square miles.\u00a0Read the rest of this story on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/nasa-satellites-discover-source-of-mysterious-volcanic-debris-in-south-pacific\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA satellites discover source of mysterious volcanic debris in South Pacific<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540,8],"tags":[496,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8608,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}