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A farewell photo of the European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite was taken by avid satellite tracker, Marco Langbroek of Leiden, Netherlands. Due to its low altitude, the spacecraft zipped across the...
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Even for Americans, though, these sights are unusual. Industrial farming, especially of animals, tends to be hidden from public view — and under so-called ag-gag laws, that secrecy could become law....
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GOCE, which ESA officials dubbed the “Ferrari of space” because of its sleek design, will spiral closer and closer to Earth over the next two weeks, finally burning up sometime in early November....
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It mapped the Moho, the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle, with more precision than possible before GOCE. In another first, GOCE’s gravity sensor also picked up sound waves generated by the...
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TV manufacturers continue to pursue a 4K agenda, even though standards (unlike Ultra High Definition images), are far from clear. Panasonic though has stolen a considerable lead over competitors, with...
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Its orbit goes over the poles, and as the planet rotates the satellite whizzes over nearly every point on Earth. But GOCE, or Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, ran out of gas...
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A satellite that has run out of fuel will be reentering the earth’s atmosphere the night between Sunday and Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) says. The agency, comprised mostly of European Union...
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This was followed by European Space Agency’s (ESA’) GOCE, launched in 2009, a slender, winged ion-driven satellite launched to glide through the upper atmosphere for nearly two years measuring Earth’s...
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