GOCE

GOCE ready to go.



Credit: European Space Agency - ESA/AOES Medialab

ESA Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer - GOCE



This is one of the most important events for geodesy and earth observation in general in a long long time.

The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) is dedicated to measuring the Earth's gravity field and modelling the geoid with extremely high accuracy and spatial resolution.

Launching GOCE made it to my list of the Top 8 Earth Observation Events 2008. You can read more about GOCE here too.