The European satellite
GOCE-Explorer Gravity field and Ocean Circulation, for its contraction in
English, was able to obtain, for the first time, extremely detailed images of
how water currents move around the planet. These images record the effect of
gravity on the ocean currents, which allows scientists to determine the
direction and speed of the same.
The data obtained by
Goce used to improve climate models studying how the oceans move heat around
the globe. In the new map you can clearly see the famous Gulf Stream, the most
intense of all streams, in which the water passes rapidly, reaching even more
than a meter per second, in some places.
