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A little more than a month after the European Space Agency lost contact with its flagship Earth-observation satellite, Envisat, ESA officials are declaring the mission concluded. For more than a decade, this spacecraft has contributed to boosting our understanding of the world we live in.
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9 May 2012
10:35 GMT |
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According to a statement made by officials at the European Space Agency, mission controllers have yet to reestablish contact with the organization's flagship Earth-observing satellite, Envisat. The spacecraft unexpectedly stopped sending data to Earth on April 8.Since then, experts have been working on the prob... |
21 April 2012
05:03 GMT |
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Experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they have lost contact with Envisat, the organization's flagship Earth-monitoring spacecraft. The satellite has been orbiting our planet for more than a decade, and has produced vast amounts of scientific data thus far. ESA Mission Control is currently w... |
13 April 2012
05:07 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat spacecraft is in a unique position to reveal the extent of ice loss going on in Antarctica. The satellite has been studying the Southern Continent for more than a decade, and the datasets it obtained since then are now being scanned for long-term trends.
ESA has been u... |
5 April 2012
05:43 GMT |
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A paper published in a recent issue of the top journal Science reiterated the necessity of global and frequent data coverage of volcanoes. This can be achieved by using satellites. Various spacecraft have already begun revealing signs that once-dormant volcanoes start to reawaken. To put things into perspective, it... |
28 March 2012
05:04 GMT |
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Experts with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that satellites in Earth's orbit are beginning to notice signs indicating that the permafrost at high northern latitudes is thawing and melting. The fact that this is visible from space is very bad news.
Permafrosts, as the name suggests, are permanently frozen ... |
27 March 2012
03:59 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat satellite turned 10 years old in Earth's orbit yesterday, March 1. This is a joyous moment for the organization, and an important milestone for the tremendously successful, Earth-monitoring mission.
It took to the skies on March 2, 2002, at 01:07 UTC, aboard an Ari... |
2 March 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Sea surface in a particular area of the Arctic Ocean has increased by as much as 15 centimeters (6 inches) over the past 15 years, leading to the formation of a large bulge of freshwater. It is estimated that this region of the ocean contains as much as 8,000 cubic kilometers (1,919 cubic miles) of water.
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23 January 2012
05:59 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) have just released this amazing new image of a huge phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. The photograph was compiled from data sent to Earth by the organization's flagship satellite, Envisat.
To me, it looks very much like a very beautiful drawing, esp... |
13 January 2012
10:52 GMT |
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This image collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat spacecraft is focused on the history-rich Greek island of Crete, which is located at the intersection between the Aegean and Libyan Seas. Both of them are located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The photo also includes a part of the Cyclades i... |
21 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce that the Environmental Satellite (Envisat) spacecraft has just completed its 50,000th orbit around our planet, after being launched to space on February 28, 2002. Even today, Envisat remains the largest, bulkiest Earth-observations satellite every b... |
23 September 2011
20:11 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they have just added 13,000 new images to MIRAVI, the satellite imaging service that follows the Envisat satellite in its orbit.The service, opened back in 2006, can be used by anyone who wants to. What it does is it converts the raw data collected by the E... |
3 May 2011
05:59 GMT |
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One of the most prolific satellites in orbit managed to snap a new image of a portion of the planet containing a piece of North Africa and Western Europe. The view shows huge clouds of sand being channeled over the Atlantic, while the others are in full bloom from phytoplankton.The latter are microorganisms that repr... |
15 April 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA) say that a new project, called CoastColor, will from now on provide researchers, scientists and authorities in European Union member states with all the information they need about how to take care of coastal regions all over the continent. These areas are of criti... |
9 February 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Satellites operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) will form the backbone of a new, early warning flood monitoring system. Earth-observing spacecraft will play a fundamental part in the shaping of new defense mechanisms, meant to avoid bad outcomes following natural crisis.Climate experts believe that the recent ... |
26 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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The European Union is expanding, it's population growing, and it's soils and lands are facing an increased pressure from all direction. Officials need to be in top of the situation at all times, and now they have a new satellite map to aid them.Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) said that the ma... |
23 November 2010
09:07 GMT |
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For the last time ever, the European Space Agency has paired up its ERS-2 and Envisat satellites in Earth's orbit, so that the two spacecraft can produce three-dimensional maps of low-lying coastal areas and glaciers around the world. The two instruments worked together in the past several times, and each sortie... |
2 November 2010
09:59 GMT |
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In a recent maneuver, the Envisat satellite has been moved to a lower orbit around the Earth. This move will conserve fuel, and will extend spacecraft operations by as much as three years. Envisat, built, launched and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been providing the international scientific communi... |
28 October 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Predicting where volcanic eruptions will strike next would be an important asset for nations exhibiting elevated risks of suffering the effects of such events. Now, satellite data are helping with this quest. Using orbital observatories, experts hope to become able to predict where the next large eruptions will take ... |
15 October 2010
10:45 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they are aiding authorities in Pakistan manage the consequences of the disaster floods that struck the country recently.The waters devastated around 33 percent of the country's surface, affecting an estimate 20 million people. It therefore stands to reas... |
2 September 2010
11:34 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released an amazing new image of a beautiful plankton bloom, which is currently taking place west of Ireland. The bloom, which is the feature colored in electric blue, looks as if it was painted with the characteristic brush strokes of French Impressionist painter Claude Monet... |
13 August 2010
05:29 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce the opening of a new website, which seeks to make traveling the Antarctic waters a lot safer than it is today. The Southern Ocean is very difficult to navigate through, especially when it comes to moving through the ice-laden waters close to Antarctica. The area i... |
27 July 2010
05:49 GMT |
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ESA's Envisat satellite is already starting to give headaches to the agency as in three years it will be an out-of-use-11-year-old space debris. This 17,636-pound Earth observation satellite launched in 2002 was the biggest non-military observation satellite ever built. It was highly expensive at $2.9 billion bu... |
27 July 2010
04:21 GMT |
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On May 6, the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth-observing satellite Envisat captured a new image of the ash plumes that have been produced by the renewed eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano, in Iceland. The massive ash plumes have been determined to be covering an area of about 1,600 kilometers above the Atlant... |
7 May 2010
10:32 GMT |
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The biomass inventory that boreal forests have is one of the most elusive and important variables in the phenomenon known as the planet's carbon cycle. Knowing its value could lead to a better understanding of the factors influencing Earth's climate, and their individual importance. Such datasets would also... |
26 March 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Since 30 years ago, when the European Space Agency (ESA) began measuring the thickness and spread of the ice sheets covering the North Pole, ice levels were never as low as they were in 2007. Increasing amounts of carbon in the atmosphere, as well as human activities, continue to heat up our planet, and increasing te... |
3 December 2008
05:16 GMT |
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