Europe launches new satellite

Europe launches new satellite

World March 7, 2017 05:57

kourou - Europe has continued to build a network of satellites to monitor the Earth. From French Guiana launched the probe Sentinel-2B in the night of Monday to Tuesday. It is the twin brother of a satellite that was left in 2015, the Sentinel-2A.

The two satellites can include helping agriculture. They see from space how healthy crops. Governments can thereby predict famines and take preparatory measures. The probes can also measure deforestation and assess the consequences of a flood or a volcanic eruption.

The probes are part of a large European project, called Copernicus. The satellites continuously hold together the land, the oceans and seas and the atmosphere in the holes. Scientists can continuously and accurately see where the sea ice, the warm sea water is, how much ozone and methane there are in the atmosphere, where the bottom falls and how the climate is changing. All data is made freely available so that everyone it can get to work. It cost about 8 billion euros.

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