An Earth-watching European probe celebrated its fifth launch birthday
with this view of Tropical Cyclone Gamede
An
Earth-watching European probe celebrated its fifth launch birthday with this
view of Tropical Cyclone Gamede.
The
European Space Agency’s Envisat orbiter, an Earth observation satellite launched
on Feb. 28, 2002, returned this view after 26,000 trips around the planet.
To date, the satellite has traveled more than 6.2 million miles (one billion
kilometers) in Earth orbit.
In this
image, Envisat used its Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) to observe
Gamede on Feb. 23 as the storm traveled across the Indian Ocean, just above the
Mauritius and Réunion.
Results
from Envisat’s last five years of observations will be discusses during the
2007 Envisat Symposium in Montreaux, Switzerland between April 23 and 27. The
satellite’s mission is slated to run through 2010.
-- SPACE.com Staff
Credit: ESA
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