ESA - Observing the Earth - Archive

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Advancing Earth science

Don’t miss the Earth Explorer 12 User Consultation Meeting

18/06/2026 83 views 1 likes

CO2M spectrometers in the cleanroom

Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite’s instrument passes vac…

17/06/2026 454 views 16 likes

El Niño 2026 begins

Pacific warming signals El Niño has stirred

15/06/2026 5886 views 46 likes

Urban expansion and flood risk in Hanoi, 2016–2026

Tracking urban expansion in hazard-prone areas

11/06/2026 1886 views 25 likes

Sentinel-1 Next Generation

ESA awards contract to build Sentinel-1 Next Generation sat…

10/06/2026 2047 views 24 likes

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide concentrations in 2024

Cleaner air and prosperity can go hand in hand

09/06/2026 3386 views 52 likes

The agreement sets out the intention for ESA and the EBRD to further explore areas of mutual interest for potential collaboration.

ESA and EBRD to advance Earth observation for development a…

08/06/2026 1247 views 26 likes

Tessera offers high-accuracy datasets that encode what the satellite ‘sees’ of Earth’s surface

Tessera AI model offers accessible way to view Earth

04/06/2026 4091 views 47 likes

Earth’s stormy heart

Insights into Earth’s molten outer core from space

21/05/2026 6133 views 75 likes

Scout missions

Greenlight for next two ESA Scout missions

20/05/2026 3532 views 54 likes

Cyber-resilience

Enabling & Support

Satellite Evidence in the Courtroom

19/05/2026 569 views 6 likes

The StatEO26 conference was held at ESA’s Esrin site in Italy.

Earth observation data for the policymaking of tomorrow

08/05/2026 1284 views 14 likes

Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

Watch live: selected sessions from the ESA CommEO Forum

08/05/2026 742 views 19 likes

Airship over Sodankylä

Putting the ‘super’ into a supersite for Earth observation

06/05/2026 2344 views 57 likes

Fourteen European satellites on the same rideshare launcher have successfully reached orbit

Launch boosts European Earth monitoring and connectivity

04/05/2026 2784 views 48 likes

One of Hellenic Fire System satellites

Hellenic Fire System satellites launched for Greece

04/05/2026 1919 views 35 likes

IRIDE reaches new milestone

Italy’s Earth monitoring programme reaches new milestone

04/05/2026 907 views 12 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

Sentinel-1D goes live: a milestone for Europe’s radar missi…

01/05/2026 5345 views 65 likes

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Stunning images from Biomass mark its one year in orbit

29/04/2026 4656 views 83 likes

Not your normal commute

Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 2547 views 54 likes

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

Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?

23/04/2026 7327 views 43 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 2369 views 33 likes

FLEX, Sentinel-3C and MTG-I2 on show at TAS cleanrooms

Three ESA-built satellites on show in France

16/04/2026 3624 views 58 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 2631 views 60 likes

ROSE-L radar wing deployment test

ROSE-L radar unfolds in crucial ground test

08/04/2026 1851 views 25 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 2081 views 40 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 4720 views 43 likes

MTG-I2 pushed into place for final environmental tests

Next MTG satellite passes final environmental tests

27/03/2026 750 views 20 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 2685 views 48 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1808 views 34 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 2636 views 30 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2764 views 54 likes

HydroGNSS: Scouting for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS on track to scout for water

12/03/2026 1224 views 17 likes

Demagnetising a Hellenic Fire System satellite

Hellenic Fire System moves a step closer to launch

09/03/2026 1145 views 23 likes

Altius to track ozone

Testing ozone-monitoring satellite’s solar wings

03/03/2026 1598 views 21 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 4401 views 59 likes

Timelapse: deploying MetOp-SG-B1’s solar wing

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 2272 views 63 likes

Mediterranean Sea heatwaves

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science

18/02/2026 7372 views 65 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 3019 views 53 likes

Flooding around the Tejo River, Portugal, by Sentinel-1

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 13440 views 95 likes

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid

06/02/2026 7300 views 89 likes

Destination Earth ready for phase 3

Europe’s digital Earth gets ready to grow user community

02/02/2026 2306 views 21 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 12273 views 80 likes

Global air humidity by MTG-Sounder

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first…

27/01/2026 88760 views 88 likes

Map of forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all

26/01/2026 12875 views 111 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation

22/01/2026 3934 views 57 likes

Gas flares in Qatar imaged by Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 explores night vision

15/01/2026 11676 views 124 likes

Small clearing in tropical forest

Tiny patches of deforestation drive tropical carbon loss

08/01/2026 3536 views 57 likes

Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice she…

07/01/2026 5891 views 40 likes

Sea-level height in the Gulf Stream, by Sentinel-6B

First image from Sentinel-6B extends sea-level legacy

16/12/2025 3407 views 40 likes

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