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Europe’s satellites track climate changes

19 January 2001

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Averaged global Sea-Surface Temperature (SST) during the month of April 1992 as measured by ATSR on ERS.

Credits: ESA

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The first of three MSG spacecraft will be launched late in the year 2000, allowing Europe to maintain its leading role in gathering global weather data until at least the year 2012.Benefiting from Meteosat's pedigree of over 20 years, the MSG satellites represent a significant leap in technological capability and will provide meteorologists with much improved imagery and data.

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Surface winds around Antarctica (strongest in yellow-tinted areas) as seen by the radar scatterometer on ERS-1.

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A solar flare, 26-Nov-2000

Credits: SOHO/EIT

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Solar Orbiter - a high-resolution mission to the Sun and inner heliosphere