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IRIDE reaches new milestone

This image of Turin, in northern Italy, was acquired on 8 March 2025 by IRIDE’s Hawk for Earth Observation (HEO) constellation.

IRIDE’s HEO satellites in the Argotec cleanroom

This image of Greenland was acquired by IRIDE’s Hawk for Earth Observation (HEO) constellation.

This image of the islands of Los Roques, off the coast of Venezuela, was acquired by IRIDE’s Hawk for Earth Observation (HEO) constellation.

Argotec’s mission control room in Italy

One of Hellenic Fire System satellites

Two Hellenic Fire System satellites in a cleanroom

Celebrating Sentinel-1D's end of commissioning

Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 21 April 2026, this image shows a double bloom in the Netherlands: an array of vibrant colours in the tulip fields as well as the blue-greenish swirls of phytoplankton in the North Sea.

Sealing MTG-I2 into its shipment container

MTG-I2 ready for transport

MTG-I2 being placed in its transport container

Andean foothills

Beni River, Bolivia

Amazon River, northern Brazil

Mekong River, Cambodia

Circular mountain plateau, Malaysia

Savanna landscape Gulf Country, Australia

Berau River delta, Indonesia

Antarctic crevasses

Thermokarst lakes, northern Siberia

Arctic tundra

Rugged river canyons, Putorana Plateau

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Radar view of Arctic sea ice captured by Sentinel-1

Chilly day in the office

Instruments at sunset

Arctic sea-ice extent

Measurements taken simultaneously from the ground and from an aircraft

Arctic campaign tracks

Not your normal commute

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights a distinctive cloud formation north of the Canary Islands of Tenerife and La Gomera.

Recent changes observed in Antarctica show some characteristics in common with changes to the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Mass loss and gains on the Antarctic ice sheet

Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.

Dengue risk map

Locust outbreak probability map

Desert locust

Red‑stained snow in southwestern Crete

This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the coast of Gabon in striking colours.

FLEX on display

FLEX shows off

Sentinel-3C on show at cleanroom in Cannes

FLEX for a better understanding of plant health

ESA’s Earth Explorer Missions Programme Manager, Dirk Bernaerts, during a presentation on Thursday morning

MTG-I2, seen here in the cleanroom, is designed to provide images for weather forecasting in Europe in unprecedented detail.

Sentinel-3C is part of the Copernicus Earth observation programme

ESA Project Managers Ralf Bock (FLEX), Nic Mardle (Sentinel-3), and James Champion (MTG).

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