By SpaceZE News Publisher on Tuesday, 09 August 2022
Category: ESA Top News

Tracking marine plastic drift from space

Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where does it end up? Right now, researchers simply don’t know. But in a bid to help find out, an ESA-led project developed floating transmitters whose passage can be tracked over time, helping in turn to guide a sophisticated software model of marine plastic litter accumulation.

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