This Gravity-Sensing Satellite Peeks Beneath the Earth’s Surface

This Gravity-Sensing Satellite Peeks Beneath the Earth's Surface

The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite has been on a quest to study the Earth’s interior, from space. Now the results are in, and a pioneering effort to map the Earth’s gravitational field in high detail, has just been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. It’s giving researchers an unprecedented look at our planet’s mantle.

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This Is What a 2,000-Pound Satellite Falling to Earth Looks Like

This Is What a 2,000-Pound Satellite Falling to Earth Looks Like

At the start of this week, the European Space Agency’s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite (GOCE) fell to Earth. This is what it looked like as it happened.

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