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Europe's Sentinel-3A eco-monitoring satellite first stunning hi-res images of Earth

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Sentinel-3A is on a mission to investigate Earth’s oceans, measure colour, temperature and sea levels, and has recently sent back the first batch of pictures.


The first test group of images depict the snow-covered archipelago in Svalbard, the Strait of Gibraltar and parts of Europe and the US.
This device is part of a large program that aims to understand and monitor the health of Earth’s oceans and land surfaces.






Sentinel-3A was first released into orbit on February 16th and is the third of more than a dozen ‘eyes in the sky’ that part of the Copernicus program.
The European Space Agency calls ‘the most sophisticated observation system every launched’, reports AP.



http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBfHTO9aXk
 
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