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GOCE – How Low Can It Go?
Caption: GOCE over ice. Credits: ESA – AOES Medialab
Since March 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) mission, Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been orbiting Earth. It carries highly sensitive instrumentation able to detect tiny variations in the pull of gravity across the surface of the planet, allowing it to map our planet’s gravity with unrivaled precision, producing the most accurate gravity map of Earth. With the planned mission completed, the fuel consumption has been much lower than anticipated, enabling ESA to extend GOCE’s life and put it into an even lower orbit, improving the quality of the gravity model. (…)
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© Jenny Winder for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | One comment |
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2012-11-19 19:01:38
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