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| | | | | | | Proba workshop: small satellite yielding beautiful results
24 March 2005
| A CHRIS image showing the smoking crater of the Mount St. Helens volcano in the United States, acquired 25 February 2005.
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| | | | | Proba-1, Project for On Board Autonomy, demonstrates the potential and feasibility of small satellites for advanced scientific and Earth Observation missions.
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| | | | | Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City in Beijing is visible towards the top of this CHRIS image, acquired 24 November 2004.
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| | | | | The city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland with the River Foyle running through it. This CHRIS image was acquired on 8 September 2004.
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| | | | | The Yangon River in Myanmar (Burma), flowing past the city of the same name into the Bago River. This CHRIS image was acquired on 3 March 2005.
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| | | | | This HRC image, acquired on 23 January 2004, shows Meteor Crater, also known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater, located near Winslow, Arizona. The 1.186 km diameter crater is approximately 180 metres deep and is surrounded by a rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some as big as houses. The shadow-casting structure visible on the north side of the Crater is the Visitor's Centre.
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| | | | | The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China, acquired by Proba's CHRIS instrument on 18 November 2004.
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| | | | Proba and disaster response
| A CHRIS image of France's Var region showing fire scarring west of the town of Cogolin. Acquired 3 September 2003.
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| | | | About Proba
| The structural model of ESA's Proba satellite at prime contractor Verhaert Design & Development, Belgium. Proba is ESA's first fully autonomous spacecraft, aimed at reducing the cost of mission operations and including some of the most advanced technology yet flown.
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