This Is The First Image From Europe’s Sentinel-3A Satellite

This Is The First Image From Europe’s Sentinel-3A Satellite

Image Cahe: Two weeks ago, the European Space Agency launched its Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite into orbit to image the Earth’s environment in unprecedented detail. This is the first image it captured, of dawn over Svalbard in Norway.

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The image above was captured on February 29 using the satellite’s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument. The eerie picture shows the snowy archipelago as well as the Arctic sea. Soon after, the satellite captured the image below, over California.

This Is The First Image From Europe’s Sentinel-3A Satellite

The satellite has a resolution of 300m and can capture images that cover 1287km at a time. Its 21 different frequency bands will be used to keep an eye on different aspects of our planet — from monitoring the health of vegetation and measuring temperatures to detecting marine life and analysing the melting of glaciers.

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