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European Space Agency and Google Earth showcase our planet

16 November 2006

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has created a special layer of content, enabling people to see ESA satellite images from Google Earth. The images can be accessed easily by clicking on the ‘Featured Content’ checkbox in the Google Earth sidebar and further clicking on the ESA icon.

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A large aquamarine-coloured plankton bloom is shown stretching across the length of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean in this image, captured on 6 June 2006 by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), a dedicated ocean colour sensor able to identify phytoplankton concentrations.

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This ERS-1 image highlights internal waves in the Strait of Gibraltar, which appear to be moving from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.

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An enormous iceberg, C-16, rammed into the well-known Drygalski Ice Tongue, a large sheet of glacial ice and snow in the Central Ross Sea in Antarctica, on 30 March 2006, breaking off the tongue’s easternmost tip and forming a new iceberg. Envisat’s ASAR acquired these images in Wide Swath Mode (WSM), providing spatial resolution of 150 metres. ASAR can pierce through clouds and local darkness and is capable of differentiating between different types of ice.

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This Envisat image shows Russia’s Lena River, Lena River Delta and the Laptev Sea. Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument acquired it on 15 June 2006 working in Full Resolution mode, to provide a spatial resolution of 300 metres. The image has a width of 350 kilometres.

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Image of a dust and sand storm in Pakistan, acquired on 13 December 2003 using Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument.

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