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Artist's impression of Envisat

auteur: ESA/Silicon worlds/Novapix

référence: e-sot02-90003

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 20 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 -