Sentinel satellite launched to picture Planet Earth

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"Image copyright Copernicus Sentinel data/ESA Image caption Musa Bay, Iran: Inland and coastal waters are also targetedThe cameras on the Sentinel-2 pair are designed to see colour features as small as 10m across.
Image copyright ESA Image caption One of the big attractions of 2B and the other Sentinels is the free and open data policyOne of the key spacecraft in Europe`s new multi-billion-euro Earth observation (EO) programme has launched from French Guiana.
"Image copyright ESA Image caption Artwork of Sentinel-2: The European satellites are part of a multi-billion-euro programmeSentinels are designed to fly in pairs to shorten the revisit time to any one point on Earth.
Image copyright Copernicus Sentinel data/ESA Image caption The biggest use of Sentinel-2 data is in agricultureSentinels 2A and 2B are, in many senses, the centrepiece of this effort because their free and open picture resource will almost certainly find the widest use.
Sentinel 2 is the next to complete its pairing; Sentinel 3, which carries predominantly ocean sensors, should have an orbiting pair aloft come next year.