{"id":10012,"date":"2020-05-28T18:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/geologia\/esta-antena-se-ha-instalado-everest-para-medir-su-altitud-exacta"},"modified":"2020-05-28T18:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:58:37","slug":"esta-antena-se-ha-instalado-en-el-everest-para-medir-su-altitud-exacta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/esta-antena-se-ha-instalado-en-el-everest-para-medir-su-altitud-exacta\/","title":{"rendered":"This antenna has been installed on Everest to measure its exact altitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/679d79\/1280px-everest-fromkalarpatar\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Esta antena se ha instalado en el Everest para medir su altitud exacta\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>Aiming to measure the mountain&#039;s exact altitude above sea level, an eight-member Chinese research team <a href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2020\/0528\/c90000-9695303.html\">has reached the summit of Mount Everest<\/a> to erect on the summit <strong>a survey marker and install a GNSS antenna<\/strong> (global satellite positioning).<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>Complex calculations are needed to eliminate errors caused by factors such as temperature, air pressure, and refractive environment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>GNSS<\/h2>\n<p>After data analysis and processing, they will carry out theoretical studies and repeated verifications to determine the exact height, <strong>a job that will last two to three months<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/geologia\/quiza-el-everest-ya-no-mide-lo-que-mide\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/9beb35\/1195682268_a075eddbc4_o\/375_142.jpg\" alt=\"Quiz\u00e1 el Everest ya no mide lo que mide \"><br \/>\n   <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/geologia\/quiza-el-everest-ya-no-mide-lo-que-mide\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/geologia\/quiza-el-everest-ya-no-mide-lo-que-mide\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\">Maybe Everest no longer measures what it measures <\/a>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>China has carried out six major measurements on the mountain since the establishment of the People&#039;s Republic in 1949. <strong>The height recorded in 1975 was 8,848.13 meters while in 2005 it reached 8,844.43 meters.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<p>If you ask us what is the highest mountain on Earth, <strong>everything will depend on where we start measuring<\/strong>. If you ask us which one is the furthest from the center of the Earth, then we must start forgetting such familiar names. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/science\/articles\/2004\/04\/16\/1086384.htm?site=science\/greatmomentsinscience\">like Everest or even Mauna Kea<\/a>. Because that title is held by Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador, which surpasses both measured from the Earth&#039;s core.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/geologia\/esta-antena-se-ha-instalado-everest-para-medir-su-altitud-exacta?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=28_May_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> This antenna has been installed on Everest to measure its exact altitude <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=28_May_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=28_May_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/su2p0ld-nmM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    With the aim of measuring the mountain&#039;s exact altitude above sea level, an eight-member Chinese research team has reached the summit of Mount Everest to erect a summit survey marker and install a\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10555,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}