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Satellite Stella above the Earth - Illustration

auteur: CNES/D.Ducros/Novapix

référence: e-sat01-92100

Image Size 300 DPI: 26 * 31 cm

Stella is a french artificial satellite launched on september 26 1993. This small sphere is covered with laser retroreflectors; it helped in the knowledge of global and large scale Earth gravity.

Keywords for this photo:

1993 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE - GEOID - GRAVITY - ILLUSTRATION - LASER - LASER REFLECTOR - SPACE - Stella -