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| | | | | GOCE orbit is so low that it experiences drag from the outer edges of Earth's atmosphere. The satellite's streamline structure and use of electric propulsion system counteract atmospheric drag to ensure that the data are of true gravity.
Credits: ESA /AOES Medialab | |  |  | |
| | | | | SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), an ESA Earth Explorer satellite, was launched into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on Monday 2 November 2009.
Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab | | | | |
| | | | | ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat mission is dedicated to precise monitoring of changes in the thickness of marine ice floating in the polar oceans and variations in the thickness of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.
Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab | | | | |
| | | | | Swarm is ESA’s first constellation of Earth observation satellites designed to measure the magnetic signals from Earth’s core, mantle, crust, oceans, ionosphere and magnetosphere, providing data that will allow scientists to study the complexities of our protective magnetic field.
Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab | | | | |
| | | | | Aeolus will be the first space mission to measure wind profiles on a global scale. The mission will improve the accuracy of numerical weather forecasting and advance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics and processes relevant to climate variability.
Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab | | | | |
| | | | | Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme.
Credits: ESA–P. Carril | | | | |
| | | | | The MetOp series of three satellites is Europe's first polar-orbiting missions dedicated to operational meteorology and represents the European commitment to a new venture with the United States. They are launched sequentially, providing data until at least 2020.
MetOp-A was launched on 19 October 2006 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on a Soyuz ST rocket with a Fregat upper stage.
Credits: ESA /AOES Medialab | | | | |
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SP-1304 Early documentation Introducing the ESA Living Planet Programme: ESA Stragegy for Earth Observation (1999)
SP-1234Earth Explorers: The Science and Research Elements of ESA's Living Planet Programme (1998)
SP-12272010 Living Planet Symposium Revisit the Living Planet Symposium CEOS EO Handbook Global Monitoring for Environment and Security |
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