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Europe launches satellite to help track global warming

2016-02-16 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Europe launched a satellite on Tuesday that will help predict weather phenomena such as El Nino and track the progress of global warming as part of the multibillion-euro Copernicus Earth observation project. The Sentinel-3A satellite, part of a system of satellites that is to monitor Earth, blasted off on board a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia's north-western Arkhangelsk region at 12:57 p.m. EDT (1757 GMT) on Tuesday. It headed for orbit 815 km (506 miles) above Earth,...

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