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Nearing Hera era in space

This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission reveals the impact of severe flooding following heavy rain that hit Australia’s Northern Territory in March 2024.

On 20 September, the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite captured its first stunning image of the Moon, achieved by rolling the satellite sideways in a unique manoeuvre. Although Sentinel-2C is primarily designed for Earth observation, this image – intended for calibration and cross-mission comparisons – exceeded expectations.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has snapped a souvenir of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert in Nevada.

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures algal bloom swirls in the north Adriatic Sea, along the coast of Italy.

Digel Cloud 2S

The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite captured this image over Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 2 September, just ahead of the Sentinel-2C launch.

Sentinel-2C in the Vega launch tower

Webb peeks into Perseus

Juice snaps Moon en route to Earth

Sentinel-2C fully loaded

Wildfires rage across Athens

The hidden intricacies of Messier 106

This striking high-resolution image offers an in-depth view of central Paris, allowing you to explore and zoom into the city’s most captivating areas in exceptional detail.

Ariane 6 science-after-school experiment sends back striking snaps

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission brings us a false-colour radar image of central Ethiopia.

Heart of Hertz 2.0

XMM-Newton and Euclid image of galaxy cluster Abell 2390

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Hainan Strait in southern China.

Hera in the doghouse

Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured a rare, cloud-free image over the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Webb admires bejewelled ring

Eye test for lunar impact surveyor

Ahead of Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Meteor Crater, also known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater.

Proba-2’s glimpse of home

Saharan dust over the Strait of Messina

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows Adam’s Bridge, a chain of shoals linking India and Sri Lanka.

Metallic Mars

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over a section of Italy’s heel in the southern part of the boot-shaped peninsula.

Drone test of planetary landing radar

First Plato camera

ESA and Vast memorandum signature at ILA

Ahead of World Ocean Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the west of Grand Bahama Island, in the Bahamas.

First metal 3D printing on Space Station

Resembling a reddish jellyfish, the Mahajamba Bay in Madagascar is imaged by Copernicus Sentinel-2.

YPSat checked in for Ariane 6 flight

Last look at EarthCARE

Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is featured in this colourful radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1.

Cool by design 3D printing

ESA astronauts Sophie Adenot and Raphaël Liégeois after the announcement of their first mission assignments at NASA's JSC in Houston, Texas.

An iceberg roughly the size of the Isle of Wight has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on 20 May.

Captured on 7 May 2024, this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of New Zealand’s North Island.

Hera plus one: enter the CubeSat

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features salt flats and lakes in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes Mountains.

Where space weather starts

This image may resemble the surface of Mars, but it was actually captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, revealing the stunning terrain of northwest Namibia.

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