GOCE giving new insights into Earth?s gravity

The first global gravity model based on GOCE satellite data has been presented at ESA?s Living Planet Symposium. ESA launched GOCE in March 2009 to map Earth's gravity with unprecedented accuracy and resolution.


"Over major parts of the oceans, the situation is even clearer, as the marine gravity field at high spatial resolution is for the first time independently determined by an instrument of such quality."

New GOCE models are already yielding a wealth of new information that is usef [...]

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