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Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Preparing ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite for liftoff

17/06/2024 3884 views 22 likes

ESA X Schiphol 'Where on Earth?' travel quiz campaign banner image

Space for a travel quiz!

12/06/2024 16606 views 34 likes

Destination Earth (DestinE), is an initiative of the European Union, that aims to develop a digital twin, or replica, of our planet.

A milestone in digital Earth modelling

10/06/2024 2914 views 18 likes

Sentinel-5 in all its glory

Air-quality mission ready to join its host weather satellite

06/06/2024 2505 views 9 likes

EarthCARE: to understand how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's radiation balance

Enabling & Support

EarthCARE on cloud nine after smooth start to mission

05/06/2024 2526 views 20 likes

Steve’s twin captured by an all-sky digital camera

Swarm helps discover Steve's long-lost twin

03/06/2024 20072 views 97 likes

Cloud and aerosol satellite launches

EarthCARE launched to study role of clouds and aerosols in …

29/05/2024 10079 views 72 likes

EarthCARE heads to launch facility

EarthCARE ready for launch

28/05/2024 2368 views 13 likes

EarthCARE on board a Falcon 9 launch vehicle

Watch EarthCARE launch live

28/05/2024 23726 views 34 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Airbus to build ESA’s Vigil space weather forecasting missi…

22/05/2024 6327 views 13 likes

Meteor seen by Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Fireball witnessed by weather satellite

22/05/2024 5741 views 27 likes

EarthCARE: to understand how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's radiation balance

EarthCARE mission kit

17/05/2024 4643 views 49 likes

Smoke from fires in Canada

Canada’s wildfire season begins

16/05/2024 2860 views 14 likes

ɸ-sat AI

AI in Earth observation: a force for good

09/05/2024 3816 views 15 likes

Mission control during EarthCARE launch preparations

Enabling & Support

Mission control ready for EarthCARE despite disruption

06/05/2024 2707 views 27 likes

Checking EarthCARE under UV light

ESA’s cloud and aerosol satellite aerosol-free

03/05/2024 1292 views 8 likes

Barcelona captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2

From space to soil

24/04/2024 3270 views 37 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

10 ways Earth is interconnected

22/04/2024 5052 views 17 likes

Earth Observation Excellence Award

Earth Observation Excellence Award 2024 winner

18/04/2024 1516 views 5 likes

Φsat-2 gets two new AI apps

Φsat-2 gets two new AI apps

18/04/2024 2511 views 17 likes

Advancing Earth science

ESA selects four new Earth Explorer mission ideas

17/04/2024 11650 views 53 likes

EarthCARE revealed

EarthCARE out of the box

16/04/2024 1883 views 18 likes

Our Ocean from Space opens in Barcelona

09/04/2024 1887 views 56 likes

All eyes on the Arctic Weather Satellite

04/04/2024 3508 views 23 likes

Accounting for vegetation in the climate puzzle

Vegetation gets a boost with data from space

27/03/2024 2661 views 25 likes

Solar flare captured by ESA’s Proba-2 SWAP

SMOS and Swarm team up to spot huge solar storm

26/03/2024 23003 views 24 likes

Building ChatGPT-style tools with Earth observation

Building ChatGPT-style tools with Earth observation

25/03/2024 4557 views 29 likes

Fixing the Arctic Weather Satellite to the shaker

Arctic Weather Satellite tested for life in orbit

14/03/2024 3417 views 23 likes

Clouds and aerosols affect Earth’s radiation balance

Joining forces on the complexities of clouds and aerosols

11/03/2024 2110 views 21 likes

Global ocean acidification stripes

Satellites increasingly critical to monitor ocean health

22/02/2024 3571 views 29 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 33147 views 76 likes

Scout missions

NanoMagSat and Tango Scout missions get go-ahead

21/02/2024 6776 views 28 likes

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 14:43 UTC, 14 January 2024

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 18163 views 59 likes

Blanketed Po Valley

Air pollution fluctuations over the Po Valley

13/02/2024 13757 views 40 likes

ERS-2 in the cleanroom

Heritage ERS-2 satellite to reenter Earth’s atmosphere

05/02/2024 24248 views 58 likes

EarthCARE over Europe

ESA’s cloud mission in the limelight

01/02/2024 3612 views 30 likes

Map reveals fishing activity not publicly tracked around Portugal and Morocco

Sentinel-1 and AI reveal 75% of fishing vessels not tracked

24/01/2024 7466 views 33 likes

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Top 10 Earth observation stories of 2023

20/12/2023 13444 views 85 likes

Destination Earth (DestinE), is an initiative of the European Union, that aims to develop a digital twin, or replica, of our planet.

ESA forges ahead with Destination Earth

14/12/2023 2904 views 59 likes

Little Pictures Competition

Little Pictures winner announced at COP28

11/12/2023 2872 views 40 likes

Brazilian tropical forest

Minding the gap on tropical forest carbon

07/12/2023 2917 views 64 likes

Climate tipping points in Earth’s climate system

Understanding climate tipping points

06/12/2023 50904 views 135 likes

Collaborating for a greener future

ESA and UNEP collaborate for a greener future

04/12/2023 2829 views 54 likes

TRUTHS: a standards laboratory in space

Contract secures next step for TRUTHS climate mission

04/12/2023 4245 views 62 likes

Components of the climate system

Taking climate action with Earth observation

30/11/2023 5384 views 56 likes

EarthCARE: measuring clouds and aerosols

How will EarthCARE shed light on clouds?

29/11/2023 3533 views 62 likes

Cadman Ice Shelf 2023 compared to 2017

Warming ocean causing rapid glacier retreat

28/11/2023 5035 views 104 likes

CryoSat

Enabling & Support

Life beyond the leak for ESA’s CryoSat

22/11/2023 7975 views 141 likes

Towards Earth Explorer 11

Cairt and Wivern Earth Explorer candidates go forward

21/11/2023 10031 views 81 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in the cleanroom

Arctic Weather Satellite in shape

20/11/2023 6827 views 97 likes

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