Italy and all of Central Europe seem to be blazing with the anomalous heat of the last week of February, in the images collected on Wednesday by the pair of Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, the Earth observation program of the European Commission and the European Space Agency ( Esa).
The 'gaze' of the two satellites has focused in particular on central-northern Italy and the other neighboring countries of central Europe, where temperatures even 12 degrees higher than the seasonal average have been recorded in recent days.
In the first image, in real colors, the sky is almost completely clear of clouds, while in the second image the colors tending to red and orange indicate the temperatures measured on the ground: already at 10:44 am they were above 20 degrees in large areas of Italy, Slovenia and Croatia, while they were between 17 and 20 degrees in France and Germany.
The detection of the surface temperature of the soil and seas, thanks to the SLSTR instrument, is one of the main objectives of the Sentinel-3 mission, which is also able to detect the surface topography of the seas (with the SRAL altimeter) and the surface color of emerged lands. and waters (with the OLCI tool) for climate and environmental monitoring.
