The images were given two hours later, after turning on the radar.
Space satellite Sentinel-1B is transmitted to Earth the first photos.
The images were given two hours later, after turning on the radar, which is a record speed for such operations. This was announced by the European Space Agency (ESA) on its official resource.
The first photo captured the 250-kilometer section of the Barents sea together with the polar archipelago of Svalbard and the second largest in Europe glacier Austfonna. Satellite Sentnel-1B is designed to monitor land and oceans in the radio. It is identical to running two years earlier, Sentinel-1A, both spacecraft Sentinel-1 will work in pairs, collecting data from opposite points of the orbit. Sentinel-1 is made to monitor the state of the oceans, glaciers and forests.
Derived from the orbit data is used for detection of icebergs and oil spills, as well as to provide relevant cartographic data in emergency situations. The launch of Sentinel grouping is performed in the framework of the project environmental monitoring “Copernicus”, the European Commission together with the European space Agency.
