Just two months after its launch, the European Space Agency (ESA) Biomass satellite is already showing us Earth in a whole new light. On June 23 the ESA released the mission’s first images, which ...

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Some places on Earth are so remote that only a handful of people have ever laid eyes on them. Take Bouvet Island, a frozen speck in the South Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by icy waters and far from any ...