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ESA's Medspiration project branches out to support biodiversity
03-19-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)Maps of the sea surface temperature around Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean are being produced daily and are available online in full resolution in near-real time as part of the Medspiration project, an ESA-funded effort to represent the most reliable temperature of the seas on a global basis.
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