Sunday, January 25, 2009

Europe's Sexy New Gravity Satellite | Wired.com

A sleek new European Space Agency satellite set to launch this year, perhaps as early as February, aims to map out the planet's gravitational field in unprecedented detail. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE, will gather data useful for research in oceanography, solid Earth physics and climate change.
Europe's Sexy New Gravity Satellite | Wired Science from Wired.com

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