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Nitrogen dioxide concentrations over China

Air pollution returning to pre-COVID levels

15/03/2021 13814 views 146 likes

The Strait of Gibraltar is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Earth from Space: Strait of Gibraltar

12/03/2021 10681 views 41 likes

GOCE helps create new model of crust and upper mantle

Gravity mission still unearthing hidden secrets

11/03/2021 10052 views 128 likes

Magnetic data show links Antarctica to ancient neighbours

Antarctica’s magnetic link to ancient neighbours

09/03/2021 11856 views 142 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite

Contract signed to build Arctic weather satellite

09/03/2021 22447 views 132 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Galápagos Islands – a volcanic archipelago situated some 1000 km west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean.

Earth from Space: Galápagos Islands

05/03/2021 9993 views 58 likes

Methane hotspots over a gas pipeline in Kazakhstan

Monitoring methane emissions from gas pipelines

04/03/2021 27588 views 202 likes

Rapid Action on COVID-19 and Earth observation Dashboard Challenges 2021

Space in response to COVID-19

03/03/2021 9042 views 70 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Vancouver – the third largest city in Canada.

Earth from Space: Vancouver

26/02/2021 5218 views 42 likes

Harmony

ESA moves forward with Harmony

23/02/2021 15736 views 145 likes

Getz glaciers flowing faster

Getz on the run

23/02/2021 4326 views 90 likes

Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

19/02/2021 8479 views 94 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lusaka – the capital and largest city of Zambia.

Earth from Space: Lusaka, Zambia

19/02/2021 6900 views 43 likes

New crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf

Is Brunt on the brink?

12/02/2021 7738 views 95 likes

For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Valentine Island in northern Western Australia.

Earth from Space: Valentine Island

12/02/2021 4967 views 48 likes

Tracking sea-level change

Sentinel-6 passes in-orbit tests with flying colours

08/02/2021 6100 views 70 likes

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the algal blooms swirling around the Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Japan.

Earth from Space: Japan in bloom

05/02/2021 4753 views 55 likes

Polar vortex change

Aeolus shines a light on polar vortex

04/02/2021 13749 views 132 likes

A-68A and A-68G

Is this the end of the A-68A iceberg?

03/02/2021 20202 views 102 likes

Polar Arctic

Satellite observations prove crucial in new climate science…

02/02/2021 2084 views 49 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 5906 views 86 likes

Ahead of World Wetlands Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Titicaca – one of the largest lakes in South America.

Earth from Space: Lake Titicaca

29/01/2021 5919 views 59 likes

Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Earth from Space: Sardinia, Italy

27/01/2021 777 views 1 likes

Area burned by fire in August 2019

New long-term dataset to analyse global fire trends

26/01/2021 6971 views 68 likes

Optimising agriculture

Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

25/01/2021 6437 views 56 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 15385 views 140 likes

Lake

Lake heatwaves to increase due to climate change

21/01/2021 4265 views 93 likes

Energy from solar wind favours the north

Energy from solar wind favours the north

12/01/2021 8965 views 140 likes

Depth of the A-68A iceberg

A-68A iceberg thinning at 2.5 cm per day

23/12/2020 10359 views 125 likes

A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice

Giant A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice

18/12/2020 11038 views 126 likes

Medical lab

Cholera outbreaks predicted using climate data and AI

17/12/2020 10815 views 87 likes

Average ground temperature 2007-2018

Long-term permafrost record details Arctic thaw

16/12/2020 6586 views 98 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6 over the Andes

Galileo enhancing Sentinel-6’s sea level monitoring mission

15/12/2020 3608 views 43 likes

Thwaites glacier seen by Copernicus Sentinel-2

CryoSat reveals surprising ebb and flow of subglacial lakes

14/12/2020 4782 views 66 likes

Methane hotspot detected with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space

14/12/2020 15032 views 121 likes

Great Barrier Reef

Reef Support wins Copernicus Masters top prize

10/12/2020 2246 views 39 likes

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

Sea-level monitoring satellite first results surpass expect…

10/12/2020 10919 views 93 likes

Antarctic landscape

Places in Antarctica named in honour of ice scientists

09/12/2020 3913 views 60 likes

Airplane

Monitoring European air traffic with Earth observation

07/12/2020 4834 views 82 likes

ROSE-L

Contract signed for new Copernicus ROSE-L mission

03/12/2020 11251 views 69 likes

ESP-MACCS

ESA paves the way for first Earth observation Scout mission

03/12/2020 6189 views 61 likes

Start of Vendée Globe 2020

Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vendée Globe

02/12/2020 4901 views 51 likes

Ice lost from ice sheets contributes to sea-level rise

Enabling & Support

Over to you, Eumetsat!

24/11/2020 3624 views 69 likes

Sea-level monitoring satellite lifts off

New Copernicus satellite to monitor sea-level rise launched

21/11/2020 9660 views 68 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich poised for liftoff

Sea-level monitoring satellite in position for liftoff

21/11/2020 7375 views 47 likes

Vega

Vega flight VV17 SEOSAT-Ingenio / TARANIS mission failure

17/11/2020 21632 views 92 likes

Contracts signed for three high-priority Copernicus environmental missions

Contracts signed for three high-priority environmental miss…

13/11/2020 6569 views 65 likes

SEOSAT-Ingenio

Enabling & Support

Preparing to fly an Earth-observing genius

13/11/2020 3433 views 46 likes

SEOSAT-Ingenio being hoisted into the Vega launch tower

SEOSAT-Ingenio hoisted into launch tower

13/11/2020 2646 views 52 likes

Sentinel data enables new system for agricultural monitorin…

12/11/2020 4668 views 34 likes

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