{"id":222896,"date":"2026-01-08T08:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222896\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:14:23","slug":"esa-snow-covered-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222896\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Snow-covered Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many people across Europe returned to work and school this week following the festive season, a sharp cold snap swept across the continent, bringing snow and ice to several regions. The sudden winter weather caused widespread disruption, with hazardous road conditions, stranded travellers, and numerous train and flight cancellations reported throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>This image, captured by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission<\/a> on 6 January 2026, shows Amsterdam in the Netherlands blanketed in snow. The city\u2019s canals, parks and dense urban fabric are clearly outlined beneath the white covering, highlighting both the snowfall and the mission\u2019s ability to monitor weather events and their impacts on urban areas from space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As many people across Europe returned to work and school this week following the festive season, a sharp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-222896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}