Jacques van Oene
December 16th 04, 09:27 AM
Satellites plus software equal best-ever Mediterranean heat map
This ultra high-resolution sea surface temperature map of the Mediterranean
could only have been made with satellites. Any equivalent ground-based map
would need almost a million and a half thermometers placed into the water
simultaneously, one for every two square kilometres of sea.
Read more at:
http://www.esa.int/export/esaEO/SEMG9L2AR2E_index_0.html
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
This ultra high-resolution sea surface temperature map of the Mediterranean
could only have been made with satellites. Any equivalent ground-based map
would need almost a million and a half thermometers placed into the water
simultaneously, one for every two square kilometres of sea.
Read more at:
http://www.esa.int/export/esaEO/SEMG9L2AR2E_index_0.html
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info