Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Feb 20th, 2012,
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has created a remarkable three-dimensional picture of the region of Mars called Tiu Vallis, which was carved by flowing rivers millions of years ago. Scientists coloured the photographs they had to show the changes in the height of the surface of the planet. Water has carved recesses up to 2000 meters deep, say the geologists who are from the Freie Universität Berlin and who helped to draft these images. On the surface of many of the craters there is no sedimentary rock. These craters arose as a result of asteroid activity…
Tags: 3D, coloured, craters, European Space Agency, Mars, Mars Express, surface, water
Climate Change, Nov 11th, 2009,
![]( "<!--:en-->European Space Agency launches satellites to assess climate change impact on Earth")
' src='http://gf2.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/1888.jpg' alt='european-space-agency-launches-satellites-to-assess-climate-change-impact-on-earths-water-systems' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> On Monday, November 2nd, two satellites were launched into orbit by the ESA or European Space Agency in order to give an overall view of the Earth’s water systems and their patterns. Named the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Proba-2, the satellites blasted off from Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. SMOS’s mission is the measuring of ‘water retention capacity in soil to help forecast drought and flood risk and calculate the planet’s carbon cycle to determine the amount of CO2 pollution that affects climate change,’ according to an International Business Times article from November 3rd. The probe will…
Tags: Climate change, ESA, European Space Agency, Proba-2, SMOS, water
