A thorough understanding of the ‘solid Earth' system is essential for deciphering the links between processes occurring deep inside Earth and those occurring nearer the surface that lead to seismic activity such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the rise of mountains and the location of underground natural resources. Thanks to gravity and magnetic data from satellites along with seismology, scientists are on the way to modelling inner Earth in 3D.

Version 2.0 of the GOCE thermosphere dataset is now available on the GOCE Virtual Archive.

The description of the algorithms used for the reprocessing of the GOCE EGG L1b data is now published and available for download.

Ten years ago, ESA launched one of its most innovative satellites. GOCE spent four years measuring a fundamental force of nature: gravity. This extraordinary mission not only yielded new insights into our gravity field, but led to some amazing discoveries about our planet, from deep below the surface to high up in the atmosphere and beyond. And, this remarkable mission continues to realise new science today.

The GOCE Gravity Gradiometer L1b data have been reprocessed and published on the GOCE Virtual Archive. Details on the updated algorithm and the impact on the L1b data quality can be found in the following presentation.

Total electron content (TEC) and rate of TEC index data for the entire GOCE science mission (Nov. 2009 to Nov.2013) are now available on the GOCE Virtual Archive.

It was five years ago this month that ESA's GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost continents hidden deep under the ice sheet of Antarctica.

A team of researchers, supported under ESA's Basic Activities, has recently investigated a resourceful new method of monitoring space weather. They utilised the data from the Swarm and GOCE Earth Explorer missions, and from LISA Pathfinder to investigate whether platform magnetometer data could also be used for space weather diagnostics.

Parts of Earth's crust are rising very slowly owing to post-glacial rebound, but using GPS, researchers have found that West Antarctica is rising faster than almost anywhere else in the world. And, ESA's GOCE gravity mission has, in turn, helped them to understand that the mantle below is unusually fluid.

All GOCE L1 and L2 data are now freely available via the GOCE Virtual Archive (http://eo-virtual-archive1.esa.int/Index.html) without the need of prior registration. This applies also to users that previously have registered and obtained access credentials.