Austfonna ice cap

This full resolution subset of the first Sentinel-1B image shows Norway’s Nordaustlandet island in the Svalbard archipelago, covered by the Austfonna ice cap. It was captured on 28 April 2016 at 05:37 GMT (07:37 CEST) – just two hours after the satellite’s radar was switched on. Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 25 April at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST). It joins its twin, Sentinel-1A, to provide more ‘radar vision’ for Europe’s environmental Copernicus programme.

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