World’s First Mission To "Weigh" All Of Earth's Forests From Space Launches
The European Space Agency ’s Biomass mission took to the sky on April 29 on a Vega - C satellite launched from French Guiana . Its scientific work will soon take up , and it is set to revolutionize what we know about the Earth ’s forests and the carbon that is stored within . The mission is the first ever satellite to have fit a P - band synthetic aperture radio detection and ranging ....