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Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati – a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas.

Sentinel-6 returning most precise data ever on sea level

29/11/2021 7660 views 118 likes

Lake Ontario temperature

Humans to blame for warming lakes

19/10/2021 3925 views 86 likes

Ship

Enabling & Support

A first for search and rescue from space

14/10/2021 2891 views 59 likes

Smoke and flames in Australia

Aerosols released from Australian bushfires triggers algal …

30/09/2021 5524 views 72 likes

Satnav receivers atop Mallorca

Enabling & Support

New angle on reflected satnav yields sharper sea tracking

08/09/2021 1582 views 38 likes

Ice sheet in Antarctica

Satellite data provide valuable support for IPCC climate re…

31/08/2021 6292 views 79 likes

Monitoring marine litter from space

Enabling & Support

Keeping an eye on ocean plastic pollution…from space!

11/08/2021 2021 views 9 likes

Baltic Sea from Copernicus Sentinel-3

New satellite data techniques reveal coastal sea-level rise

07/07/2021 15086 views 112 likes

Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter 2 with three ESA Pioneer satellites

Satellites launched to boost connectivity and create jobs

01/07/2021 6882 views 47 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6 radar altimeter

New sea-level monitoring satellite goes live

21/06/2021 11182 views 99 likes

Peloponnese coastline changes

Monitoring coastal changes in Greece

18/05/2021 8681 views 117 likes

Fisheries

Enabling & Support

ESA signs Memorandum of Collaboration with World Ocean Coun…

10/03/2021 609 views 6 likes

Tracking sea-level change

Sentinel-6 passes in-orbit tests with flying colours

08/02/2021 6076 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 4726 views 55 likes

Enabling & Support

ESA reaches out to maritime communities

29/01/2021 1845 views 22 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6 over the Andes

Galileo enhancing Sentinel-6’s sea level monitoring mission

15/12/2020 3595 views 43 likes

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

Sea-level monitoring satellite first results surpass expect…

10/12/2020 10907 views 93 likes

PRB yacht

Galileo satellites help rescue Vendée Globe yachtsman

03/12/2020 4158 views 105 likes

Start of Vendée Globe 2020

Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vendée Globe

02/12/2020 4897 views 51 likes

First map of global shipping captured by the ESAIL satellite

ESAIL’s first map of global shipping

26/11/2020 7785 views 195 likes

Tallink Megastar ferry

Baltic ferry gathers data for self-aware sailing

16/11/2020 1439 views 24 likes

Nitrogen dioxide emissions over the Mediterranean

Detecting pollution from individual ships from space

09/11/2020 11724 views 157 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6 over Northern Europe

Follow live discussions: Sea-level rise and Sentinel-6

02/11/2020 4020 views 41 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6 over the Maldives

Ramping up to launch sea-level charting satellite

19/10/2020 4413 views 42 likes

Spire's machine-learning capable nanosat

Machine-learning nanosats to inform global trade

28/09/2020 3227 views 66 likes

SAT-AIS artists impression

Enabling & Support

Sustainable shipping for a sustainable planet

24/09/2020 1127 views 2 likes

Maritime traffic around British Isles

Satnav loss might shut down sea, warns ESA-backed study

24/09/2020 3349 views 42 likes

Surface measurements reveal more carbon flowing into the oceans than expected

Our seas are capturing more carbon than expected

22/09/2020 5334 views 79 likes

ESAIL maritime satellite launched

03/09/2020 3156 views 15 likes

Sea ice

CryoSat taken to new heights for ice science

03/08/2020 3107 views 50 likes

ESA is investigating how best to detect plastic marine litter from space

Enabling & Support

A step forward in detecting plastic marine litter from space

01/07/2020 7589 views 48 likes

The ESAIL satellite prior to encapsulation

ESAIL maritime satellite ready for launch

12/06/2020 4581 views 58 likes

Baltic blooms

Enabling & Support

Space for the oceans

08/06/2020 4156 views 24 likes

Swarm probes weakening of Earth’s magnetic field

20/05/2020 219658 views 689 likes

Shedding light on the ocean’s living carbon pump

06/05/2020 5824 views 92 likes

Working on Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Building satellites amid COVID-19

04/05/2020 4241 views 53 likes

Sentinel-1 radar modes

Enabling & Support

Satellite images and artificial intelligence unite to spot …

21/04/2020 1257 views 3 likes

Baltic blooms

Enabling & Support

Combatting climate change with ESA’s Blue Worlds initiative

20/03/2020 957 views 5 likes

Greenland and Antarctica losing ice six times faster than e…

11/03/2020 16043 views 100 likes

The ESAIL satellite is loaded onto a Cargolux plane

ESAIL maritime satellite departs for launch site

17/02/2020 2204 views 26 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6

Sentinel-6 satellite renamed in honour of renowned US scien…

28/01/2020 6621 views 51 likes

Rescue beacon activated

Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide

23/01/2020 11712 views 66 likes

Bondo landslides, Switzerland

Satellites key to '10 Insights in Climate Science' report

06/12/2019 3191 views 38 likes

Warming seas

35-year data record charts sea temperature change

05/12/2019 7804 views 91 likes

Global sea-surface salinity 2012 and 2017

New maps of salinity reveal the impact of climate variabili…

30/11/2019 10382 views 78 likes

SMOS in orbit

Space is key to monitoring ocean acidification

28/11/2019 5285 views 48 likes

Space technology to monitor plastic marine litter

Enabling & Support

Keeping an eye on plastic from space

23/10/2019 2751 views 7 likes

Sea roughness key to carbon flux

Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?

08/10/2019 11275 views 217 likes

Winched up to helicopter

Volunteer ‘saved’ from North Sea in live Galileo rescue test

04/10/2019 2407 views 22 likes

Sea ice

Using artificial intelligence to automate sea-ice charting

10/09/2019 5452 views 71 likes

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