{"id":330509,"date":"2025-12-16T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=61347b1d03fd64df57ec42b0c6fd3206"},"modified":"2025-12-16T03:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:30:20","slug":"bassac-river-southern-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=330509","title":{"rendered":"Bassac River, Southern Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A camera on the International Space Station captured this Oct. 2, 2025, photo of the Bassac River in C\u00f9 Lao Dung, a river islet district in southern Vietnam. The Bassac River surrounds the district before emptying into the South China Sea. The river\u2019s brown waters at its mouth result from massive amounts of silt, clay, and organic matter carried from upstream regions of the Mekong River Basin, combined with tidal forces from the sea that stir up sediment. This photograph was taken from as the space station orbited 260 miles above Earth.<\/p>\n

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A camera on the International Space Station captured this Oct. 2, 2025, photo of the Bassac River in C\u00f9 Lao Dung, a river islet district in southern Vietnam. The Bassac River surrounds the district before emptying into the South China Sea. The river\u2019s brown waters at its mouth result from massive amounts of silt, clay, [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t