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    GOCE helps create new model of crust and upper mantle

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    • Title GOCE helps create new model of crust and upper mantle
    • Released: 11/03/2021
    • Length 00:02:59
    • Language English
    • Footage Type Animation
    • Copyright Planetary Visions (credit: ESA/Planetary Visions)
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      Despite ESA’s GOCE mission ending over seven years ago, scientists continue to use this remarkable satellite’s gravity data to delve deep and unearth secrets about our planet. Recent research shows how scientists have combined GOCE data with measurements taken at the surface to generate a new model of Earth’s crust and upper mantle. This is the first time such a model has been created this way – and it is shedding new light on the processes of plate tectonics.

      The new model produced in ESA’s 3D Earth study shows for the first time how dissimilar the sub-lithospheric mantle is beneath different oceans, and provides insight as to how the morphology and spreading rates of mid-oceanic ridges may be connected with the deep chemical and thermal structure.

      Read full story: Gravity mission still unearthing hidden secrets

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    • Activity Observing the Earth
    • Mission GOCE
    • System GOCE Satellite, Future EO
    • Keywords Earth observation , Geological structure, Geology, Gravity, Remote sensing

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