{"id":189140,"date":"2025-03-22T03:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=0096d6e88c8bc17ab1b8591db91d7441"},"modified":"2025-03-22T03:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:25:51","slug":"making-ripples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=189140","title":{"rendered":"Making Ripples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A dark gray dolphin&#039;s fin breaks through the water, making ripples of various sizes. The water is blue-gray, so the image is almost monochromatic.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=300,201 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=768,514 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=1024,685 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=1536,1028 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=2048,1371 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=400,268 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=600,402 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=900,602 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=1200,803 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ksc-07pd3144orig.jpg?resize=2000,1339 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/George Shelton<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A dolphin swims through the water in the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 6, 2007. The turn basin was carved out of the Banana River when NASA Kennedy was built. Dolphins are a frequent sight in the rivers around Kennedy, which shares a boundary with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/merritt-island\" rel=\"noopener\">Merritt Island Wildlife Nature Refuge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The refuge was established in 1963 for the protection of migratory birds. Consisting of 140,000 acres, the refuge provides a wide variety of habitats: coastal dunes, saltwater marshes, managed impoundments, scrub, pine flatwoods, and hardwood hammocks. These habitats provide a home for more than 1,500 species of plants and animals and 15 federally listed species.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/George Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dolphin swims through the water in the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 6, 2007. The turn basin was carved out of the Banana River when NASA Kennedy was built. Dolphins are a frequent sight in the rivers around Kennedy, which shares a boundary with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kennedy-space-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189238,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189140\/revisions\/189238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}