{"id":185597,"date":"2011-03-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"40eebb741179e1b024ce7eefa0a35a62"},"modified":"2011-03-21T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T00:00:00","slug":"goce-geoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=185597","title":{"rendered":"GOCE: Geoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2011\/03\/goce_geoid\/8098975-7-eng-GB\/GOCE_Geoid_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLaunched on 17 March 2009, ESA&#8217;s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) is bringing about a whole new level of understanding of one of Earth&#8217;s most fundamental forces of nature: the gravity field. Dubbed the &#8216;Formula 1&#8217; of satellites, GOCE is mapping Earth&#8217;s gravity field in unprecedented detail.\n<\/p>\n<p>This has given rise to a unique model of the &#8216;geoid&#8217;, which is the surface of an hypothetical global ocean in the absence of tides and currents, shaped only by gravity. It is a crucial reference for measuring ocean circulation and sea-level change, which are affected by climate change. <\/p>\n<p>The colours in the image represent deviations in height ( -100 m to + 100 m) from an ideal geoid. The blue colours represent low values and the reds\/yellows represent high values.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSee also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEM1AK6UPLG_index_0.html\">Earth&#8217;s gravity revealed in unprecedented detail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2011\/03\/goce_geoid\/8098975-7-eng-GB\/GOCE_Geoid_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nLaunched on 17 March 2009, ESA&#8217;s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) is bringing about a whole new level of understanding of one of Earth&#8217;s most fundamental forces of nature: the gravity field. Dubbed the &#8216;Formula 1&#8217; of satellites, GOCE is mapping Earth&#8217;s gravity field in unprecedented detail.\n<\/p>\n<p>This has given rise to a unique model of the &#8216;geoid&#8217;, which is the surface of an hypothetical global ocean in the absence of tides and currents, shaped only by gravity. It is a crucial reference for measuring ocean circulation and sea-level change, which are affected by climate change. <\/p>\n<p>The colours in the image represent deviations in height ( -100 m to + 100 m) from an ideal geoid. The blue colours represent low values and the reds\/yellows represent high values.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSee also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEM1AK6UPLG_index_0.html\">Earth&#8217;s gravity revealed in unprecedented detail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}