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Artist's impression of Envisat.

auteur: ESA/Novapix

référence: e-sot02-90002

Image Size 300 DPI: 48 * 48 cm

Launched in 2002, Envisat is the largest Earth Observation spacecraft ever built. It carries ten sophisticated optical and radar instruments to provide continuous observation and monitoring of the Earth's land, atmosphere, oceans and ice caps.

Keywords for this photo:

2002 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE - ENVISAT - ILLUSTRATION - INFRARED - LIMB - RADAR - SPACE -