A new European satellite called
Envisat has completed 12 months in orbit and sent back some
amazing images of the Earth...
One of the most dramatic images is of the
oil slick from the
Prestige oil tanker, which
sank off the northwest coast of Spain last year...
This and other images in the
BBC NewsOnline photo gallery can be seen by following the link and are courtesy of the
European Space Agency and Oxford's
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Earth-Info.Net would like to see a much greater proportion of the scientific effort from the world's space agencies focused on
studying our own planet rather than deep space or other planets... interesting though they are!
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