Saturday, September 24th, 2011
ESA’s Envisat observation satellite yesterday completed its 50 000th circuit of Earth – travelling 2.25 billion km since its launch nearly a decade ago. Envisat orbits our planet every 100 minutes, speeding along at more than seven kilometres...
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
ESA’s 2009 global land cover map has been released and is now available to the public online from the ‘GlobCover’ website. GlobCover 2009 proves the sharpest possible global land cover map can be created within a year. The...