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    • Title Best view yet of global gravity
    • Released: 31/03/2011
    • Length 00:00:47
    • Language English
    • Footage Type Animation
    • Copyright ESA/HPF/DLR
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      ESA's GOCE mission has delivered the most accurate model of the 'geoid' ever produced, which will be used to further our understanding of how Earth works. The colours in the image represent deviations in height (–100 m to +100 m) from an ideal geoid. The blue colours represent low values and the reds/yellows represent high values. The geoid is the surface of an ideal global ocean in the absence of tides and currents, shaped only by gravity. It is a crucial reference for measuring ocean circulation, sea-level change and ice dynamics – all affected by climate change.


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    • Activity Observing the Earth
    • Mission GOCE
    • Keywords Climate Change, Earth, Earth Explorers, Earth observation , Gravitational field, Gravity, Gravity impact on ocean currents

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