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Wow this is a picture of Envisat, Europe's giant Earth Sciences satellite which has packed-up after 10 years' service. The picture was taken by Pleiades, a new spacecraft from the French Space Agency (CNES), while speeding past at a range of 100km. The operators had to flip Pleiades over and probably had to snap the picture within a time-window of few a milli-seconds.
More on: [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17790420 ]BBC[/url] and [url= http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Envisat_services_interrupted_999.html ]Space Daily[/url]
Remarkable French technology.
Posted : 21/04/2012 7:55 am
Thought the french only made cakes
Posted : 21/04/2012 9:43 am
Looks like something cynic-al's knocked up.
Posted : 21/04/2012 9:48 am