{"id":51871,"date":"2024-02-07T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/heritage-ers-2-satellite-set-to-reenter-earths-atmosphere\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:22:21","slug":"heritage-ers-2-satellite-set-to-reenter-earths-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/heritage-ers-2-satellite-set-to-reenter-earths-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage ERS-2 Satellite Set to Reenter Earth\u2019s Atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After a 16-year working life, the second European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) is making its final descent into Earth\u2019s atmosphere. ERS-2 returned information that influenced the perception of climate change and the understanding of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> European Space Agency (ESA)<\/strong> retired ERS-2 in 2011. It was originally launch in 1995. The Space Debris Office has been closely following the satellite\u2019s 13 year orbital decay and will monitor ERS-2 natural reentry into earth\u2019s atmosphere. This is expected to happen around mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>ERS-2 launched in 1995 four years after its sister satellite ERS-1. Both satellites carried an imaging synthetic aperture radar, a radar altimeter, sensors to measure ocean-surface temperature and winds at sea and other impressive instruments. ERS-2 had an additional sensor to measure atmospheric ozone.<\/p>\n<p>The ESA satellites collected significant data on Earth\u2019s diminishing polar ice, changing land surfaces, sea-level rise, warming oceans, atmospheric chemistry and also monitored natural disasters. With this information scientists were able to begin to understand human impact on the planet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Technologies pioneered on ERS-2 paved the way for several successor ESA missions such as the Envisat mission, the MetOp weather satellites, the Earth Explorer scientific research missions and the Copernicus Sentinels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 16-year working life, the second European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) is making its final descent into Earth\u2019s atmosphere. ERS-2 returned information that influenced the perception of climate change and the understanding of the planet. The European Space Agency (ESA) retired ERS-2 in 2011. It was originally launch in 1995. The Space Debris Office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}