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How much damage can debris do?

ESA's technical heart

Learning lessons from the past on space debris

Dynamic dunes

3D printing, as long as you like

Using reentries to clean up

Planet-hunting eye of Plato

Launch rates are dramatically increasing

New Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar images show a giant iceberg breaking off from the northern section of Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf

Greener way to get satellites moving

Collision avoidance: what's the cost?

Italy’s Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has erupted twice in less than 48 hours, spewing a fountain of lava and ash into the sky. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image has been processed to show the lava flow in bright red.

Flying fire watch

Satellites and debris take a long time to return

As this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image captured today shows, the Netherlands remains pretty much snow-covered thanks to days of sub-zero temperatures following the country’s first major snowstorm in a decade.

At the rim of a crater

Proba-V’s plus one

Happy new Mars year

Propelling satellites into the future

ExoMars orbiter's 20000th image

Simulating space

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

Seeing in a flash

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tanezrouft Basin – one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara Desert.

Asteroids vs. microbes

The heavy snowfall that hit Spain a few days ago still lies heavy across much of the country as this Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite image shows.

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of Madrid in Spain appears to have been taken in black and white. In fact, it is a true-colour image – but the heaviest snowfall in 50 years has blanketed the region, turning the landscape white.

Cosmic neon lights

The Sun in 2020

Frosty scenes in martian summer

Bubble produced by the Multiscale Boiling experiment on the International Space Station

Instruments installed on Euclid spacecraft

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over Lapland, the largest and northernmost region of Finland, just in time for Christmas.

Heavy snowfall in the Alps has been recorded over the past weeks. The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured this image of the snow-covered Alps on 14 December.

Iron’s in the fire

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kyiv – the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

One ring to bind them all

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