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Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this radar image over French Guiana – home to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, where ESA’s Biomass mission is being prepared for liftoff on 29 April onboard a Vega-C rocket.

Solar Orbiter’s widest high-resolution view of the Sun

This very high-resolution image captures the Egyptian city of Giza and its surrounding area, including the world-famous Giza Pyramid Complex.

Sombrero Galaxy

Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 (MIRI image)

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of one of the world’s natural wonders – the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.

New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

Smile meets Maxwell

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission shows us what is left of the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world.

A chance alignment in Lupus

Biomass cleared for fuelling

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the striking landscape surrounding the Waza National Park in Cameroon.

Spying a spiral through a cosmic lens (Webb telescope image)

ESA's Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Inner space engineering

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.

Biomass out of the box

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image showcases striking rocky formations amid the blue waters of Halong Bay in northeast Vietnam.

Hera Mars flyby

Hera: Target Deimos

A solar array of the Orion spacecraft for Artemis II with the ESA and NASA logos

Webb wows with incredible detail in star-forming system

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Albania’s capital Tirana and its surroundings.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, the world’s largest human gathering, which took place in the city of Prayagraj in northern India.

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar image shows Tokyo and its metropolitan area, the largest urban agglomeration in the world.

For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission picks out a heart in the landscape north of Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington.

The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December 2024.

XMM-Newton finds two stray supernova remnants

KA-BOOM

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights part of the São Francisco River in eastern Brazil.

Satellite ready for close-up

A Tarantula’s outskirts

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured Cyclone Dikeledi south of Madagascar on 16 January, just a few days after it made landfall on Africa’s southeastern coast causing widespread destruction in several countries and islands.

Seed-sized space chip

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures the borders between North and South Dakota and Minnesota blanketed with snow and ice.

Five wildfires are still currently burning (as of 10 January) in areas of north Los Angeles. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 9 January 2025, shows the Palisades and the Eaton fires, with smoke seen reaching Catalina Island and the Santa Barbara reserve.

Fanned by very strong winds, a wildfire is ripping through the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, California. This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission vividly depicts the smoke billowing from the fire near Santa Monica on 7 January 2025, not long after the fire broke out.

Pale blue (supernova) dot

Hera asteroid mission in your house

With the festive season approaching, even Earth-observing satellites are getting into the spirit, capturing a stunning compilation of European cities that resemble stars.

The southern lights at Concordia station in Antarctica

Fit for service: Themis reusable rocket stage demonstrator

These summer images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 missions showcase different satellite views of Greenland’s west coast.

Space design chamber made with LEGO® bricks

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image from 21 November 2024 captures the first snow of the season over Denmark and southern Sweden.

BepiColombo's fifth Mercury flyby

A colourful patchwork of agricultural fields is pictured in this radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1 over southeastern Romania.

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