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Southern Ukraine is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
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Kourou, French Guiana
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Earth from Space: Kourou, French Guiana

17/12/2021 4507 views 38 likes
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Explorers Jamie Facer Childs and Justin Packshaw
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Kitesurfing the white wilderness for polar science

16/12/2021 1871 views 75 likes
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Earth's protective shield
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Swarm and Cluster get to the bottom of geomagnetic storms

15/12/2021 3860 views 98 likes
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Profiling the world's winds
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Aeolus paves the way for future wind lidars in space

14/12/2021 1958 views 48 likes
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Contract signed to build Scout CubeMAP

10/12/2021 768 views 41 likes
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Washington state flooding

18/11/2021 5086 views 107 likes
The US State of Washington is under a state of emergency following days of severe wind and rain leading to extensive flooding in parts of the state. Different satellites in orbit carry different instruments that can provide us with a wealth of complementary information to understand and to respond to flooding disasters.
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Tuning in to Earth’s climate

11/11/2021 1594 views 69 likes
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Melt

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Space for a Green Future

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Change in the Arctic

02/11/2021 4673 views 117 likes
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La Palma lava flows into the sea

01/10/2021 47963 views 695 likes
This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 on 30 September, shows the flow of lava from the volcano erupting on the Spanish island of La Palma.
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A-74 iceberg near collision with Brunt Ice Shelf

20/08/2021 6076 views 170 likes
New radar images show the A-74 iceberg spinning around the western tip of the Brunt Ice Shelf, brushing slightly against it before continuing southwards.
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Wildfires ravage Greek island of Evia

12/08/2021 7805 views 154 likes
Parts of the Mediterranean and central Europe have experienced extreme temperatures this summer, with wildfires causing devastation on the Greek island of Evia. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows the extent of the burned area in the northern part of the island.
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Mediterranean continues to bake

03/08/2021 15392 views 227 likes
This map generated using data from Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows the temperature of the land surface on 2 August 2021.
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