{"id":291787,"date":"2025-09-27T01:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=c6fb2fe116eec21a569f106da77c6fd4"},"modified":"2025-09-27T01:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:19:36","slug":"golden-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=291787","title":{"rendered":"Golden Lake"},"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-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A view of northwestern China (bottom) and eastern Kazakhstan. A body of water in the distance glows gold; this is Lake Balkhash, one of the largest lakes in the world. The rest of Earth that is visible is mostly covered with flat, white clouds. At top, Earth&#039;s atmosphere can be seen, as well as the darkness of space.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg 4928w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=2048,1363 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=400,266 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=600,399 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=900,599 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=1200,799 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iss047e137096orig.jpg?resize=2000,1331 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Tim Kopra<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Golden sunglint highlights Lake Balkhash in this May 31, 2016, photo taken from the International Space Station. The large lake in Kazakhstan is one of the largest lakes in Asia and is the 15th largest lake in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Since the space station became operational in November 2000, crew members have produced hundreds of thousands of images of the land, oceans, and atmosphere&nbsp;of Earth, and even of the Moon through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/station-science-101\/earth-observation\/\">Crew Earth Observations<\/a>. Their photographs of Earth record how the planet changes over time due to human activity and natural events. This allows scientists to monitor disasters and direct response on the&nbsp;ground and study a number of phenomena, from the movement of glaciers to urban wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/\">other activity aboard the space station<\/a> helps inform long-duration missions like Artemis and future human expeditions to Mars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Tim Kopra<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden sunglint highlights Lake Balkhash in this May 31, 2016, photo taken from the International Space Station. The large lake in Kazakhstan is one of the largest lakes in Asia and is the 15th largest lake in the world. Since the space station became operational in November 2000, crew members have produced hundreds of thousands [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[15644,18259,15651],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth","category-electrified-aircraft-propulsion","category-international-space-station-iss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291787","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291816,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291787\/revisions\/291816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}